There are no ways to get around the facts. For Republicans and conservatives and independents who wanted a new direction for our country, the victory of President Obama is sad — and for many of us, unexpected. Those conservatives who assured us with statistics, theories, and arguments about Romney winning the White House, even in a landslide, should be eating their hats.

In the past week, conservatives who usually disagree with each other about many things, including Fred Barnes, Peggy Noonan, Dick Morris, my PJM colleague Roger Kimball, George F. Will, Karl Rove, and Michael Barone, among others, provided analysis and arguments, all of which led to predictions of an inevitable Romney victory. Instead of the outcome they all looked forward to and assumed would be inevitable given Obama’s failures and the state of the economy, they found that their theories collapsed as the returns poured in. Instead of a long night, by 11:30 p.m. even Fox News had called the election for the president. Yes, Karl Rove thought their statistics desk called it too early, but 15 minutes later he too agreed that Ohio had gone for the president.

So what happened? I had been trying to warn my optimistic friends in recent days that I thought Obama would win, and was regularly greeted with a slew of polls meant to prove I was wrong. So here are some of my thoughts and reactions, written before I can be influenced by the pundits who will be writing in tomorrow morning’s newspapers and appearing on TV talk shows.

First, the Obama campaign’s decision to frighten women worked. Republicans did not wage a campaign on social issues, but the Obama team ran commercials in all the major swing states emphasizing how Romney would try to outlaw contraception and prohibit their right to choose abortion if they felt there was no alternative, and that half the population would be threatened were a Republican elected.

Republicans lost the Senate with the two candidates who made outrageous statements that Romney simply dealt with by saying he did not agree; he refused to take away his endorsements, which would have indicated he meant business. No one expected the unpopular Claire McCaskill to win, but Todd Akin’s ridiculous statements led even her to win, and Richard Murdock’s outrageous views on rape as something God intended resulted in victory for his Democratic opponent. Without the Republican Party sticking to support for both these candidates, the Republicans might have been able to gain the Senate. With friends like these, conservatives became their own worst enemies, providing the ammunition for the Democratic charge that Republicans were waging a war on women.

Second, there is the hurricane factor. The nation saw Obama in his bomber jacket, accompanied by Republican keynoter Gov. Chris Christie as he visited the devastated areas of New Jersey hit by Hurricane Sandy. For the Democrats, it became the perfect storm that allowed the nation to believe what it wanted desperately to think — that Barack Obama had become a leader whom even the conservative governor of New Jersey worked with and praised for his leadership. The news coverage of Obama and Christie, and the governor’s effusive over-the-top praise of the president, hurt Romney in a significant fashion. Christie’s stance even led Bruce Springsteen to talk on the phone with the governor on Election Day, and to praise him for his working relationship with the president. Christie finally got the call from his hero that he had been yearning for. Gone, I think, are his chances to run for the White House as the Republican candidate four years from now.

Third: the Latino vote. The percentage of Latinos voting increased significantly, and although many are Catholic and socially conservative, the tough stance on immigration reform taken by Romney in the primary campaign hurt his chances of gaining enough of their votes. Republicans like Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, both of Florida, were serious about conservatives developing a position more flexible and less dogmatic than the anti-immigration position of many conservatives. Their views, supported by the Wall Street Journal and most of the business community, were not that of most conservatives. When the voting statistics are tallied, I think we will find that with more Latinos voting for Republicans, Romney might have been able to do much better, if not win. As it is, he will have won far less than George W. Bush, who tried to develop a different policy but lost his fight to gain conservative support on the issue.

Fourth: The Republicans, who indeed may have obtained many of the white working-class vote (the so-called Reagan Democrats of past campaigns), cannot count on winning national elections and to be a national majority party if they count only on the votes of a diminishing white working-class and on the votes of Southern states alone. In this sense, the theory of John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira of an “emerging Democratic majority,” which is based on their demographic picture of the electorate, is apparently beginning to prove fairly persuasive. That means that to win, Republicans have to change their strategy and the nature of the appeals they make to the country at large. It is not enough to say simply that “if we strongly advance conservative principles, we will win.”

Five: Romney did not convince voters, as Florida and Ohio voters said to the press who asked, that he cared for people like them. Obama, they said, showed that he cared and understood their problems. In other words, Obama was successful in his portrayal of Romney as a spoiled man of wealth who cared only for the profit of vulture capitalists, such as those at Bain Capital as it was portrayed by the Democrats.

Six: What does the future portend? Already, the centrist Democrat Lanny Davis penned an op-ed on Fox News’ website, arguing that he should make three phone calls to “three conservative Republican senators who care about the country and who want to solve problems more than winning ideological wars.” They are, he writes, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Orrin Hatch. Together, he argues, Obama can create a “broad center-left and center-right bipartisan majority congress and actually start to solve problems facing our country.”

Good luck, Lanny. My own belief is that the president will argue that the nation has given him a mandate and endorsed the policies he sought to pursue, and that he will do all he can to move the United States to the “fundamental transformation” he said was his goal in the 2008 election campaign. That means the opposite of any attempt for serious compromise, and a hunkering down to try to move ahead with Obama Care and other politically leftist programs. He will try to mobilize the nation against the Republicans, who managed to hold control of the House of Representatives.

Seven: So what should conservatives do, now that the nation has elected Barack Obama to a second term? The popular vote is fairly split evenly, and we are still a divided nation. Politically, there is nothing ahead but continued stalemate in Congress. The president will attempt to move ahead via executive branch fiat, thereby bypassing Congress.

In this atmosphere, it is foolhardy to give the nation evidence that failure to try and solve problems that are confronting us is the fault of Republicans and conservatives. Those opposed to the direction Obama favors should provide serious and meaningful alternatives of their own, and present them to the nation. They should do everything possible to reveal to the nation that it is the White House, and not the defeated Republicans, that is failing to deal with the coming crisis of a growing entitlement state.

In foreign policy, which is the most dangerous of the coming crises that will face the Obama administration, conservatives should relentlessly forge ahead on issues like the failure of the White House in the murders of our diplomats at Benghazi, which candidate Romney foolishly failed to deal with in the last days of the campaign, and to see to it that there is a change in direction from the failed policies of the past four years. It also means a continuing effort to raise the issue of the danger to the world of the growing radical Islamic movements abroad, to attack their ideology, and to make it clear that although Bin Laden is dead, his death did not put an end to a regrouped al-Qaeda.

Finally, it is essential that conservative intellectuals do not abandon the effort to change the culture, and to, in Gramscian terms (as the late Gene Genovese often put it), wage a war of position on the cultural front and to do all possible to challenge the ascension of a failed intellectual liberal ideology, whether it be in the form of Progressivism, liberalism or socialism. Whether it is called “the blue model” as Walter Russell Mead calls is, or something else, the intellectual fight against its assertions must begin with all the strength we can muster.

So we all have our work cut out for us. Let us hope our nation gets through the next four years, and that the president takes Lanny Davis’ call to heed, and does not act as I fear he will.

UPDATE:

With 448 comments so far, there is no way that I can address any issues various people have made. I do recommend three must-read articles that deal with the issue of why Romney won and that make some good points. The first is my D.G. Meyers, the second by Michael Medved, and the third is an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. I am in general agreement on the points these various writers make, and they speak to many of my critics and the arguments they present

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Hahaha! Suck It, Pajama Losers! Four more years!!!! ….and guess what, now the gloves COME OFF, and the knives Come Out! You brought this on yourselves.

You, like most liberals, demonstrate a great misunderstanding of history. Fascism is a political system in which businesses are owned and controlled by the government. Why do you think the official name of the Nazis was the National Socialist German Worker’s Party? Sound pretty leftist to me. Read your history before you comment from a position of ignorance.

CW – Only if you use a loose definition of Right and Left. Fascism has always been a form of socialism, and therefore cannot be connected to the American Right, but is more properly placed on the political Left.

Fascism, contrary to the indoctrinatory lies from the academia’s left, is a socialist movement. Leftist academia, mostly communists that where die hard enemies of any other form of socialism, created this lie that fascism was right wing because nationalism, something these same academicians then associated with contemporary conservative movements, was amongst the things that comprised its platform. Do some reading however, and you will find out that fascism, both in Italy and Germany, was a socialist system where the state, in collusion with big business, controlled wealth and chose winners and losers. Does this system, where government picks who wins and who loses, while bad mouthing the private sector to gain favor with the sheeple, yet throws oodles of the sheeple’s money at those entities run by their buddies, sound familiar to you? BTW, if you need some more schooling, let me point out to you that the contraction Nazi, came from the fact that Hitler’s party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, was a S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-T party.

I am not surprised that leftist idiots think fascism is a disease of the right however, because after decades of indoctrination, by pro-communists academicians of al things, too many people simply have no clue about the evil history of either fascism or communism, and that’s why we are doomed to relive it all again. The tragedy is that the fascist accuse those that oppose the fascist’s ways of being the fascists, and do so with an air of superiority. Go figure.

I will gift you with a little wisdom – a definition of leftists and the extreme rightists.

Leftists are those who concentrate their power in a monolithic government. Even islam (wrapped in a “religious” cloth) is a leftist totalitarian government ideology. National Fascism CHOSE corporations that were privately owned, but supported by the GOVERNMENT. Only communism nationalized corporations making them government entities. But the principle was the same.

Those on the right belive in LIMITED government. Indeed, our founders believed government was a necessary evil, but still necessary to direct national defense. The EXTREME right believes in NO GOVERMENT at all – i.e ANARCHY! Every man for himself – MadMax! Now, extreme leftists have populated the anachy platform – but that’s because they are dumb. Or smart……everybody dirtpoor and fighting for their very existance WOULD be a leftists wet dream…

Lolly, that’s so. Where people like CW make their fundamental mistake is, they read of the violence from those Left political groups, but can’t acknowledge that people on the Left just LOVE to act out violently. So they reject it and claim it can only derive from the Right.

So basically, Lefties are a-historic and self-delusional. Not a shred of honesty. Morally bankrupt.

The left–who have always taken their cues from the European “intelligencia” (a self-conciously pretentious term if ever there was one, which pretty much says it all about the movement from which it derives), fawn over European socialism, have read all their books and then make the mistake of applying their definitions to America. Much of the right in Europe has always had some truely fascistic elements, with exceptions of course.

Lost in their delusional state, they fail to be able to see the obvious: that the US conservative movement is the antithesis of fascism’s central control–and has been from the very beginning. That it has fought wars to end it and has written tombs paying homage to freedom from government overlording and rule by our “betters.”

They misidentify the obvious because they have no ability to understand it.

Only if your a Marxist. If you have more than one working brain cell you would understand that. But since i am sure the “best” our progressive government run schools could produce…….I doubt you will ever understand reality, you got all you even need to know from the “teachers”. You will be one of the leaches that starve when the actual producers quit and walk away.

Not so. Fascism has it roots in early Marxist theory and is an offshoot of Socialism that advocates the private ownership of the means of production but with state control and direction. Read your von Mises and Hayek.

About what I’d expect from an anonymous coward whose postings and evident grasp of history read like a psychopath’s cut and paste ransom note. But hey – let’s get it right from the horse’s mouth, so to speaK:

“The Party is all-embracing. It rules our lives in all their breadth and depth. We must therefore develop branches of the Party in which the whole of individual life will be reflected. Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the Party as the representative of the general good. There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual belongs to himself. This is Socialism – not such trifles as the private means of production. Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or workers. All that, you see, is unessential. Our Socialism goes far deeper…”

“The people about us are unaware of what is really happening to them. The gaze fascinated at one or two superficialities, such as possessions and income or rank and other outworn conceptions. As long as these are kept intact, they are quite satisfied. But in the meantime, they have entered a new relation; a powerful social force has caught them up. They themselves are changed. What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.”Adolph Hitler – Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction pp 191-193

You’ve made a deal with the Devil, pal. Don’t whine when the bill comes due.

The ais were radical socialistsence the name, National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which others here have pointed out. What half-baked leftists don’t understand is that if Obama goes after the middle-class and the affluent via higher-taxes and after corporations via much more regulation that everyone will suffer. I hope I’m wrong, but I anticipate another recessio, a declining stock market and rising inflation. Unemployment will go back up as well.

You did not win. You and your leader sound like elementary school children on the playground. Actually we have all lost, you especially, as you do not understand simple math, you have no sense of shame, you belong to the culture of death, you have no work ethic, you believe that the end justifies the means so there is no need for speaking the truth, and anything goes as long as you get your way. We are all gulag bound, but some of us will always be free.

You need to understand that the definitions of left-wing and right-wing are reversed from the Europes definition. When a European calls someone a “right-wing fascist”, like the nazis were, that is equivalent to “left-wing fascist” here in the United states. The nazis were the “National Socialist Democratic Party”, a “right wing” party in Europe, the equivalent of the Democratic left here in the USA.

So in your view Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao were all right wingers? Why not include Mohammed while you’re at it? Go read another book. It’s a shame that Fascism For Dummies isn’t in print or you might know that fascism is a tool used to enforce ideologies like totaliarianism, which is an actual ideology as opposed to a mere technique.

Is that $500 a down-payment on an advanced reservation to the anti-austerity protest march that you will be lining up for, like your fellow-travelers in Greece, 4 years from now? It’s going to be a hoot to watch the misdirection of the Left in placing blame elsewhere when our economy hasn’t budged 4 years from now.

Yes, the Fascists have won this one. The Obama will create the Department of Business that will have tight control of businesses without the mess of actually running them. That is the definition of Fascism.

The dictatorship of Stalin and the dictatorship of Hitler hated each other so much because they were so much alike. They were both socialists.

Of course the knives come out.
We’ve already witnessed the escalating violence,crime,racism,lack of morals and hatred of Obama worshippers.

The great desire of liberals to be unemployed dependents who petulantly demand everything for free and childishly demand attention seeking from a pseudo mommy on the backs of tax payers .

So destroy those evil people who build companies and create jobs.Have unions demand $70 an hour for $20 worth of work.

Create $5 trillion more debt.

Abort all American children and import 3rd world breeding machines who promptly go on welfare to replace them.Be proud you care so little about yourself you’d sleep with anything and hate your own children enough to kill them.

Tell yourself you are creating a new,superior country with people so stupid they vote for fantasies and skin color.

You won the same thing you voted for in 2008. More unemployment ,more welfare,more crime,more dead Americans and more illegals sucking up your tax dollars.Enjoy your same sex adventures.

Lydia nails it. You have summed up the current state better & more succinctly than any pundit’s blah blah blah. I will keep a copy of your post to reread every now & then as a reminder of what precisely is wrong with our national socialists. Thank you and good luck to you, Lydia.

Some might think you sound bitter, Lydia, but I think that you are just being accurate.
However, Romney made plenty of gaffes during the campaign. It is time for Republicans to realise that the position of the religious right on abortion is nothing but a vote loser for the party. Stay out of people’s lives is the best advice you can listen to on this subject.

Furthermore, maybe Romney’s comments on the 47% were truthful, but people can’t stand too much truth, especially if it sounds insulting. Biden capitalized on this gaffe and probably swung loads of votes Obama’s way.

Your Social Security would look a lot more secure with some 55 million more young people paying into the system. Think about that before you opine about abortion. A nation that allows for children to be killed because they conflict with parents’ short term plans is a nation that doesn’t have a future.

Yes.
I might add that many of my generation, the baby boomers, are reaping what they have sown. When you live a life of irresponsibility and no consequences (never grow up) you eventually reap a bitter, useless crop. But, hey, you showed them–”it’s my life…no one is the boss of me!!” The trouble is, there are laws of God and laws of nature that you cannot contradict.
(Worse yet, many have raised children that have no connection with these realities…and are not equipped to function in the adult world.)
I am praying that it all fails–the sooner the better, because the corruption and the deceit we have now is no foundation for anything worthwhile. I put my trust in God Almighty, He will prevail, and He will rebuild with the right stuff. And He will take care of those who honor and trust in Him.

And when you wake up in persistent economic malaise, in a world where your ability to work around the lack of insight on the part of your leaders and chart new courses for humanity is greatly diminished …

… facing war without end from thugs and fanatics emboldened by our weakness …

… and looking to a future where your kids, with the moral and material support of your government, can decide that supporting you when you are most vulnerable is neither cost-effective nor convenient for them …

… remember that you, and those who voted for Mr. Obama yesterday, brought it on yourselves. Does the term “Pyrrhic Victory” hold any meaning for you?

Yep; you are correct.
To see where Obama and the progressives will take the nation, there is no need to look across the Atlantic at Greece or Spain.
Just look at California.
If you are very poor, California is the place to be; you have no job and cannot obtain one because there are no jobs to be had; but no need to fret because California will pay for your food, rent, schooling, etc. Hey, no need even to be a citizen.

And if you are very rich, California is the place to be because you have the economic wherewithal to hire the best tax attorneys and tax accountants to shelter most of your vast income from really high income taxes.

And given your wealth, gasoline at ANY price, electric rates and ANY price, food at ANY price, …… and so on, are well within your financial reach.

In fact, to demonstrate your “green-ness” you have spent an extra 100 grand on your brand new 5 million dollar home to make it very “green.”
And you even have a Prius to take you to your 500K sailboat docked at the nearby marina. (of course, you still have your really massive SUV to take you on longer trips, but, shhh !!!!, don’t tell anybody).

If you are middle class, well,tough sh^t. Especially if you are white because you can count of the govt. of Calif. not to provide you any help at all; but they will raise your taxes and basically your entire cost of living.

Yes folks – the liberal progressive ideology; govt. OF the wealthy ruling elites, BY the wealthy ruling elites, and FOR the wealthy ruling elites.

And, in line with the utterances of Karl Marx and Lenin, etc., the ruling millionaire progressive elites are making very good progress in destroying the middle class.

It is OK that millionaire PROGRESSIVE ruling elites ride in massive SUVS, take private planes, own several large homes in very nice locations, shelter their income, establish trust funds, etc.; you know, live like the ruling aristocracy of 18th century Europe.

But let’s be very clear; if you are an average working stiff, YOU MUST, drive a Prius, or better yet, take the subway or bus or walk, use less electricity and other resources, live in a much smaller home, and, by the way, pay MORE for everything, including way higher taxes (because you do not have the real hi income level of the millionaire ruling progressive elites to establish trust funds or hire fancy shmancy tax attorneys/accountants to shelter your income).

The ultimate goals of the progressive ideology is already available to be viewed in Cuba and N.Korea (ruling elites living hi on the hog, and an impoverished citizenry), and the former USSR and E.Europe (ruling elites living hi on the hog and an impoverished citizenry).
What we see today in Cuba etc. – the ideology of FORCED EQUAL OUTCOMES – IS THE IDEOLOGY, of the liberal progressive, the ideology of Barack Obama and the (millionaire, elitist) democratic party.

My greatest concern w.r.t. California is that the state will eventually recognize that it is bankrupt (it is already – they just haven’t admitted it yet) and will then go to the Federal Government for a bailout. Under this administration they will certainly get it, thus foisting the debt and other results of the foolhardy policies of the left onto the rest of us.

Agree with lots of what you say; but apparently you’ve bought into the progressive agenda yourself regarding “massive SUV.” As if there is something evil about large vehicles (aka gasguzzlers). That position only reinforces the idea that mankind can cause weather to act badly; e.g., the global climate change hoax. Being energy independent erases that bias, while enabling the auto companies to build what the customers want.

It’s not the fault of the wealthy that we’re now facing disaster; it’s more the fault of an entrenched elite class and bureaucrats held to no account.

Realize that superstorm Sandy did more ecological damage in a week than all of US citizens, in aggregate, since the advent of motorcars circa 1910.

Congratulations on your president’s win. Enjoy the next 4 years. I believe you will have plenty of leisure time soon. As a conservative, I plan to be quiet and watch for the next year. I reccomend that course of action to all. Allow the reults to occur in a vacuum and watch the libs conmsume themselves.

The first thing Conservatives must do is stop listening to the numbskulls at PJMedia and Fox News. They bamboozled us and lied to us by constantly saying that it would be a Romney landslide, even thought they probably knew better. They did us all a huge disservice, and they did it just to keep us hanging on. They’re job is to entertain us, not to inform us, and they figured that lying to us and telling us that everything was peachy was a good way to keep us pinned to our TV and computer screens. And it worked – they honestly had me believing their manufactured hype. They treated me like a sucker, and I was stupid enough to trust them. Never again. From now on, I’m getting my political news from people who actually understand math, statistics and demographics, rather than from prevaricating dunces and grifters like Dick Morris. PJ Media, you are nothing but a bunch of con artists. I’m done with you.

It is stunning … part of this country is truly ignorant and has no idea what it has done … John Adams was correct … “Liberty cannot be preserved without the general knowledge of the people”. John Adams also said: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soons wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” It appears we are on the way. Thank you people!

Suppose you meet someone who doesn’t like you, bad-mouths you at every opportunity, wants to take things from you that are rightfully yours and wants to spoil (er’ fundamentally change) the world in which you make your living.

Now suppose you meet someone who disagrees with you but tries as best they can to explain why. And failing any meeting of the minds, agrees that perhaps each side should agree to leave things as they are and enjoy the freedom to go their own way.

I don’t think we need to call each other fascists to understand which of the above describes the “trolls” that show up here and which represents the typical PJM reader.

This precisely the symptom that encompasses our national problem. Liberals/Progressives can act as they want, say what they want, because they have no standards, don’t care to have any standards, and don’t understand the need for any standards.

Had we won and a Conservative wrote such a thing, it would be proof positive of our various hatreds of class, race, ideological differences, etc. But such troglodytes feel free to express themselves in such a manner when they “win.”

Your ideology might have won, but our country has lost. And I will relish pointing the finger at you and your ilk as we slide under the waves.

Oh, so the lefties want to bring out the knives now that they put the most incompetent President in power in the history of the US. Well, Mr. Chaves, Marx or Stalin, if you want to bring out the knives, we’ll bring out the Glocks, the S&W’s, the AR-15′s etc and while you play with your knife- poof!!
Loser!!

Though I’m conservative, I was a little nervous about Romney winning because there is a perfect storm of factors (huge real-estate bubble in China, disintegrating EU (PIGS nations) and continued food and energy shortages) that all threaten stagnate the US recovery. Even if our next president did everything perfectly, he is fight a headwind economically. I was worried Romney would be in for four years, and after that four years, the un-employment rate would still be above 6.5% with huge numbers of under-employed. This is would be very bad news for a second term. However, now that Obama is re-elected, the blame for all of this will lay at the feet of the democrats (regardless of if they deserve it or not). Unless the President can work an economic miracle, democrats will be crushed in four years. There will be no more excuses, no more “There just hasn’t been enough time to fix the problems”, no more feeling guilty about voting the first black president out of office after his first term and no more being able to blame anybody else. Obama completely owns the next 4 years, and unless he can bring about serious economic improvement (against global economic headwinds), democrats will be slaughtered in 2016. Part of me is glad the mess of the next four years will all be laid at President Obama’s feet.

I believe that most African-Americans, Hispanics, and women are conservatives in their world view. They vote democrat for their own perceived self-interest. The only real liberals are the testosterone-challenged, 1 out of 4, white guys who probably got shoved around a lot as kids.

Ah, the warm and caring embrace of of the Left, which is morally superior because it cares, really cares about other people. Yep.

Obama pulled back the curtain when he said to vote out of revenge. Because I am known as a Tea Partier at my work place, I’ve been asking friends if they’ve entered the office pool predicting the date I’ll be hauled off to a re-education camp on the North Slope.

I didn’t want to believe it, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that we had passed the tipping point from a country of producers to a country of takers, but we have.

I didn’t want to believe it, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that voter fraud was a serious problem, but it is. Even if this election didn’t hinge on voter fraud, and I’m not sure it did, the outcome of today’s election will be to institutionalize voter fraud. There will be thousands of verifiable cases of voter fraud that the Holder DOJ will refuse to prosecute, thus further emboldening those who will cheat to win. Welcome to the newest member of the banana republics.

I didn’t want to believe, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that a majority of our fellow citizens were/are too ignorant to grasp the cause and effect relationship between those policies that made our economy grow and our country great, but now I do.

Last, I don’t want to believe the Republican party will fail recognize that the reason Romney lost is he was too moderate. Instead, I fear they will conclude that the reason Romney lost is that he was too “radically” conservative. The days of a real fiscal conservative winning a national election are over, at least one coming from the Republican party.

Buy lots of ammo, stock up on long term food, become as energy independent as you can and be ready for the civil war that is surely to come as our government runs headlong in to fiscal insolvency, and the masses who have no idea where their “free” stuff comes from begin rioting in the street as forced rationing and mandatory confiscation are implemented by the government.

The sad, sweet irony is that when that day comes, the low information voters who handed us this mess will be the first and the hardest hit as they have ZERO life skills that will allow them to break away from the government teat.

Our only hope now is to take over all local politics, install hard core fiscal conservatives who are true patriots who believe in the promise that was our constitutional republic. Likely, these candidates will have to come from third parties as the Republican party will be utterly clueless about the need for it and will do everything in it’s power to defeat them from the grass roots level on up.

If I am right about all of the above, and I think I am, it only strengthens my resolve to remain resolutely bound to my core principals and the Judea-Christian based ethics that made this country great. I will fight to the last for what I believe is right.

Romney lost for several small reasons, not for a single glaring defect. His work at Bain, his great wealth, the blowback from the Akin/Mourdock debacles, his religion, the 47% comment, and of course, the media hated him. Those are what did him in.

Of all of those, the most damaging was the 47%. It reinforced his elitism, and being out-of-touch.

The 47% comment is true and as we have seen, Obama only needed to get another few percent of the voting population to buy his B.S.
Being honest might be the morally correct way to go about living.
It appears that isn’t the way to win an election.

First of all as per the 47% comment. People on welfare an the like Don’t vote. Second the only voter fraud was GOP operatives shredding registrations an only registering republicans. There still isn’t a shred of evidence to think otherwise. Third Latinos, Blacks are smart enough to know which party actually cares about working class people. You need to stop listening to the lies of RUSH,SEAN,MARK an FOX! I listen to all politics an fact check it all. Trust me they have fed you nothing but lies an what you wanted to hear for 4 years.. Open your news horizons..

If blacks are so smart why did they accept 14.3% unemployment among their number? At that level they shouldn’t have voted for skin color but for someone that might make a difference in their lives. The satisfaction of a half black man in the White House doesn’t put food on the table. Oh, forgot, that’s what food stamps are for.

If you seriously think that this is anything other than Democrat efforts at voter suppression, then I have no more time or effort to waste on you. I have worked with the mentally ill before, and you are demonstrating many signs of medical insanity.

I already have my hands full trying to survive today, trying to support my friends and family, trying to protect my home from thieves and murderers. If there is no hope of helping you, I will not waste myself on you.

There’s lots of evidence. Just yesterday, Republican election judges were expelled from Democratic precints in Philadelphia. Many years ago, I heard a Republican former legislator explain (on the radio) how a Democratic lawyer explained to him how he stole his seat, using hanging chads no less. There’s plenty more.

We are no longer a nation where the majority of people value exceptionalism, hard work, and success: we are a nation where envy and greed, by people that think they are entitled to what other’s have simply because they are born, now decides which kinds of politicians get to determine our future. Nothing good will ever come from this failure of character, no matter how nicely the thieves package the shit sandwich we will be fed.

Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money, and then all you are left with is the tyrants that played the takers. How sad.

Obama:
1. has already visited ALL 57 US states.
2. has offered Russia,for nothing in return, to revoke the shield promised to Poland et al.
3. has called Jan Karski a “hero who infiltrated a POLISH death camp” on national TV. He,of course, dit NOT appologize on national TV.
4. is not interested in Europe at all.
5. allowed several high US officials go be brutally murdered in Libya.
6. has had the Noble peace prize bestowed unto him for probably being black
7. has bailed-out Wallstreet-Hooray, socialism for the rich.

And the people of the US has RE-ELECTED him. I am appalled (of course, in Poland, we have a government just as bad….). And dissapointed.
Greetings to your allies in Poland/or rather, the nation soon to be sold to imperialist Russia,AGAIN

What you mentioned played a role but I think the debates cancelled out all of the above problems. This is an election we should have won and despite losing I think the defeat was more about tactical than structural problems – except perhaps the growing number of Hispanic voters – Marco Rubio should temper that problem at the Presidential level until we can find a way to get a conservative-friendly form of immigration reform through Congress.

I think it somewhat naive to think that Democrats care about “comprehensive” immigration reform – they don’t. They don’t because they know they can win the Hispanic vote and drive Hispanic turnout with the immigration issue as is. Democrats aren’t going to risk making immigration a non-issue for socially-conservative Catholic Hispanics and allow them to drift over to the Republican Party and likely future President Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. But now on to what I think were easily correctable tactical mistakes that cost us this election.

1. Florida – It looks like we’ll lose by just 50k but Connie Mack, the GOP Senate candidate, lost by over ONE MILLION VOTES. If Jeb Bush was our Senate nominee he would’ve brought enough moderates, non-Cuban Hispanics and women voters over to give Mitt a victory in Florida.

2. Ohio – In hindsight it looks like Paul Ryan was the wrong “boring white guy” to put on the bottom of the ticket and it should have been Rob Portman.

3. Nevada and Colorado – I’m not surprised about Nevada but I am surprised we lost Colorado especially given how well early voting was going. Our media establishments should have done a better job of getting “Fast and Furious” into the minds of the Hispanic electorate; keep in mind most Hispanics in Colorado and Nevada are of Mexican origin and probably would not have looked to kindly on Obama for playing a role in the death of 300+ Mexican civilians. Whether this would have depressed turnout amongst Hispanics or convinced some of them to vote for Romney I don’t know but we should have made Fast and Furious a part of the discussion.

4. Virginia/All of the above – It is now obvious the resources we spent on Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan could have been better spent in Virginia, Florida and Colorado, states where Obama was not polling well enough to win (I don’t include Ohio since he was at 50 percent in quite a few polls). Would these ultimately wasted resources have guaranteed Republican victory? – I don’t know – but the “alternative path” strategy turned out to be useless anyway since we didn’t win Florida and Virginia.

You do realize Obama’s vote total fell by 10 trillion – a whopping 16%. Romney lost because 3 million fewer Republicans supported this industrious genius than supported bottom of the class McCain. Obama didn’t win. The Republicans lost. Radosh writes a column explaining the election without even looking at the results. Typical conservative pundit.

Very nice post. But, there is no tomorrow- the tipping point is here and there is no going back. When we run out of money, which will be soon, the Obama voters will be pissed. Just make sure you have plenty of ammunition.

If Romney had been elected, he would probably have pivoted to the center and tried to do in a competent and more fiscally balanced way — he does understand economics, after all — more of less the same things that Obama will now try to do in an incompetent and economically illiterate way. In that sense Romney’s defeat has undercut the ongoing attempt to convert the US to the European model.

Obama’s laziness will only grow as he decides to do everything he really cares about by decree, and in a few years or so Congress will have to impeach and remove him from office or admit that it is just a formality, a waste of time and money because it has lost any significant affect on what the US government does. My money is on Congress wimping out.

Obama is too feckless a personality to become a dictator, but he will establish toxic precedents about how US presidents can ignore Congress and the judiciary, trying to apply methods perfected by the Chicago political machine on a national scale. He will, historically speaking, be followed very quickly by a true American “first citizen” or “Big Brother” type who attempts to redress the economic and foreign policy chaos that Obama’s policies will create. There is every chance that future historians will write books with titles like

“From George Washington to Barack Obama: The Constitutional Era in American History”

It will be interesting to see whether any of the really close states in this election end up going Republican by a narrow margin. Mathematically speaking, if you separate out the close elections they should have a 50-50 chance of going one way or the other. If, instead, all or most of those elections go the same way, it becomes very clear that many of them were won with stolen votes. The reason is that fraudsters will try to steal elections by creating just enough phony votes for the outcome to go their way — creating lots of unnecessary phony votes only increases the risks of getting caught.

To show how this close-election analysis works, say both OH and FL go Dem. by very slim margins. The elections were close, so they both had a 50-50 chance of going either way. That they both went Dem would only be expected 1/2*1/2 or 1/4 or 25% of the time if both elections were fair. There would also have been a 25% chance of both elections going to the Rep. and a 50% chance of a split. If VA, OH, and FL all go Dem by small amounts, that would have occurred in a set of three close and fair elections only 1/8′th or 12.5% of the time. You see how this works. There is never any way to prove that it is impossible for all these close elections to turn out the same way, but eventually it quickly becomes overwhelmingly likely that vote fraud is happening.

One last thought about fraudulent elections: In principle it could be detected by post-election polling. Fraudulent votes have no real people connected to them, and after the election there is no time pressure to get the poll out. So, groups who suspect vote fraud could pay for a poll, one with an extremely large number of samples, ask the people being polled whether they had voted and who they had voted for, and end up determining — outside the poll’s margin of error — that vote fraud had or had not occurred. This could end up being much more effective than a recount when the corrupt government officials who ran the election are the same ones participating in the “recount”.

Forget about impeachment. Ain’t gonna happen. The Democrats would rather see this country turn into a smoldering pile of manure than turn on one of their own.
Look at what Obama has done already, enabling the murder of Navy Seals and our Foreign diplomats…either one should convince any American that Obama should be impeached…but the list goes on and on.

I’m actually trying to be optimistic here, but what I think is that most U.S. citizens regard elections as personal and local and don’t think at all about the big picture. Otherwise, Romney would have won.

Seriously? Since i am a realist an intellectually honest.. Benghazi is bad. but enable? It is sad we lost American lives an maybe the ball was dropped. But why don’t you show the same anger at the congress for not passing the bill for increased funding for the state dept. Thats why we know your biased regardless of the facts or situation. You have no balance in your argument… Hard working home owner an Obama voter.. the 47% Romney was talking about..

The State Dept. had plenty of money for security and had assets available to help when the embassy was attacked. For political reasons they refused to intervene, until it was too late. We can look forward to more attacks and an Iranian bomb under this feckless administration. God save us because it’s now clear we won’t save ourselves.

So, you are ok with Dear Leader munching popcorn and watching – in real time – our people being slaughtered? Getting those desperate phone calls for help and telling them all to suck it up and stand down? Then going to bed so he could hop on Airforce1 to go campaign in Vegas?

That is exactly what Liberals do. They enable every single lower form of life in the lust for “feeling” better about themselves. Liberals give every one who would trespass a “get out of jail free card” for any and all miss-givings. They teach it is never anyones fault except greedy republicans or bankers or business owners.

The funding from Congress is irrelevant. The Obama administration had credible intelligence that an attack was going to happen on the Benghazi consulate. The logical response to that, is to protect the consulate and those who are in it by increasing security inside. In that, Obama failed, and hence, is responsible for more than just “dropping the ball.”

Brad, there is NO doubt that you are correct. The streets of American will be overtaken by the most radical forces, piece by piece.
It is not for nothing, the Radical/Islamist-in-Chief intoned about revenge. Ditto his commie/Islamist help mate, Valerie Jarrett. She too spoke about payback.She, along with Muslim Brotherhood Mafia operative, Huma Abedin (Hillary’s Deputy COS)too, are the most dangerous women in America. Yes, they are.
In no small measure, the same gang which managed to drive the U.S. close to the cliff, has four more yrs to finish their hit jib.
And this is what happens when revolutionaries grab the reins of the body politic -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/27/obamas-america-entering-the-parallel-universe-of-radical-politics-gone-haywire-a-short-path-to-dictatorship-addendum-to-gunning-for-tea-party-activists-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Is is going to get WAY worse. Forewarned is forearmed.

They are unrelenting Zionist.. Its that simple. At least thats what my Jewish neighbors call them. Along with the king of Zionism Mark Levin.. They only want the U.S. military to do their bidding.. Wake up conservatives. You have been had..

Collapse will come… the Crap will hit the fan… and if you’re not prepared for it it will kill you.

What Brad states now is not treason but merely a restatement of what will happen.

And furthermore? Who is the bigger traitor? It is the man who seeks to make this all happen. Obama has no intention of enforcing the law of the land — he has ignored it at times when it was inconvenient and used it as a cudgel to destroy that which he sees as offensive. He has no intention of preserving our rights — his arrest of Sam Bacille and his statements at the UN have shown that clearly. He has no intention of protecting us — his actions at Benghazi and his words to Vladimir Putin betray his true intentions.

Who is the bigger traitor here Benjamin: a man who simply wishes to defend himself, his family, and his rights…

…or the man so hell bent on making sure that Brad here doesn’t succeed?

All of the things you mention indicate a bad president or a president you disagree with. Absolutely none of them constitute treason. You do not live in a totalitarian state and your fundamental rights are not being taken away. The fact that you do not like the direction the US is taking does not give you the right to overthrow it. If you actually think a civil war is coming, I frankly think you are vaguely insane. If one actually does come, you will lose.

Someone explained that the value of elections is that they predict who would win a civil war. I think that is pretty accurate.

I don’t think that the original poster was advocating treason. He was merely acknowledging that by reelecting a President as bad as Barack Obama the people of the United States have demonstrated that the America many of us thought we lived in is over. It is the realization that we are not really part of what America has become but merely residents. We don’t really owe loyalty to this new thing walking around in America’s clothes or to other people who happen to share a passport. Most of us didn’t want to face that unpleasant but liberating fact.

A hurricane hits New York City? Interesting but why should I care more than if a hurricane hits Bangladesh? Illegal immigration has devastating economic effects on low skilled native born, particularly black Americans? Sorry, I don’t have to care any more. Given the diminished military and security services another major attack by radical Islamists is almost guaranteed? As long as it doesn’t hit anybody I know, it just sucks to be the victims. Civil unrest and violence? Why should I care any more than Europeans did about the 1990s war in the Balkans?

Mark in Texas, yours is the scariest comment on the “Revenge” America that Obama campaigned on and won. 52% or so of the voters have liberated all of us from the burden of caring about the Other – even if the Other “belongs” to the same government, by her votes she’s declared herself part of a different country, nation and culture.

Mark.. Bad president? the math doesn’t add up. He already in one term is said to be one of the greatest presidents in history.. We have been safer. You all talk about bad policies. Please list those bad policies for me..

“All of the things you mention indicate a bad president or a president you disagree with. Absolutely none of them constitute treason. You do not live in a totalitarian state and your fundamental rights are not being taken away. The fact that you do not like the direction the US is taking does not give you the right to overthrow it. If you actually think a civil war is coming, I frankly think you are vaguely insane. If one actually does come, you will lose.”

Yes, the right-wingers would lose — after all, everyone knows the armed forces favor left-wing politicians and most of the men (designed by evolutionary forces for combat) voted for Mr. Hussein this election. — Oh, wait…

@stop creating false narratives: This is off the top of my head – so I’m going to miss ALOT!!!!

List of bad policies?
1. Bankrupting coal industry
2. Use EPA to halt new refineries
2. Solendra
3. Use EPA to instill Cap and Trade
4. Use EPA to halt energy independance
5. GM bailout contravening US bankruptcy laws
6. Gulf moratorium – ignoring Federal court’s contempt ruling on moratorium
7. Sueing states that try to protect themselves from open border policies
8. Using Coast Guard to halt clean up of BP spill
9. Use EPA to halt frakking – which has been going on in this country for 60 years – and will make us energy independant from the Middle East
10. Veto on Keystone pipeline
11. Violating 1st Amendment on Catholic Church
12. Fast & Furious
13. Cancelled missile protection signed by previous adminstration for Poland and other countries
14. Abandoned Israel (this should have been first!)
15. Bowed to foreign sovereigns
16. Apology tour (America shouldn’t have to apologize because we are successful!)
17. Emptied the Treasury – to pay off Unions
18. Bengazi
19. Ignoring the Green Revolution in Iran
20. Drone Kill list
21. Drone deployment in the US

Like I said – I’m leaving out ALOT!!! His atrocities have been daily! Someone out there, I’m sure has a complete list. Google it!

1. coal production hasn’t slowed
2. Refineries haven’t built in U.S. in decades. There is no oil shortage. Oil companies have billions of barrels of refined products.
3. Solendra a failed start up(not happy about but not a scandal) better than Haliburton
4. simply not true
5. again not true
6. saved auto industry, pensions an more unemployed Americans
7. The gulf had the worst oil spill in U.S. history
8. suing states who wanted to usurp federal law an racial profile
9. never heard this one
10. Natural gas is booming now more than ever-trying to keep fresh water safe
11. Keystone was not going to help our energy needs. more negatives then positives
12. the law applies to organizations who receive federal dollars. An the church does in its business operations
13. Fast an furious was started under the previous administration
14. Russia is not our enemy.
15. Its about time Israel commits many human rights violation
16. seriously
17. again not true.. our success does have a lot to do with imperial capitalism an should be questioned about the affect it has on other nations people
18. see auto bailout
19. horrible tragedy.. but not a scandal.. what about the funding congress withheld to just obstruct our president
20. drones are saving American lives.. an less civilian causalities than troops on ground.. Romney agreed on policy
21. the new black helicopters.. its called technology
You need better resources try your google button instead of your FOX button

Nonsense. Treason, as always, is defined by the winners. Democrats are winners? If you believe that, just look around you; we’re now closer to civil war than any time since the bloody original. Where’s that pesky ‘consent of the governed’ thing that you and your kind ignore?

It’s not going to be civil war. Don’t be so foolish as to think that the leftists will give us the satisfaction of keeping this a domestic contest. It’s going to be patriots vs. socialists funded and armed by their overseas allies who will want to divide up the land they conquer for their cronies here. It’ll be a fight for our lives.

“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful, good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean: more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

And I seriously hope that the vast majority of PJMedia learn to accept that fact, take a few days to lick the wounds, and come to the actualization that it was not Mitt Romney but a wicked society and a corrupted media that cost us an election.

I was thinking tonight, being there is no such thing as a perfect candidate or a perfect campaign, I was proud to vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. In fact, it was the first time in 28 years of a Presidential campaign I actually was excited about my vote.

That is the part that saddens me the most tonight. I’m sure the reality of a SCOTUS makeup and Obamacare will sink in after reflection.

But the worst part for me is I cannot help but feel the Almighty laid a choice of good vs. evil before us today, and we chose evil.

I agree. I thought Mitt Romney got better throughout the campaign. The final rallies were better than anything since Reagan. I have more respect for our nominee and less respect for the half of voters who voted for the incompetent evil incumbent instead. I’m also thoroughly disgusted with the biased news coverage and have been looking for some way to respond that they will feel financially. Maybe cancel my cable service?

Republicans are now the governor in 30 states. Maybe we should use our state level strength to roll back the absentee and early voting that’s killing us. 2012 showed that random slackers who have to be given free stuff and hauled to the polls in vans can overwhelm the effect of motivated conservatives who would have crawled over broken glass to cast their vote. In the end, being more motivated didn’t translate into more votes.

The fact that this country is divided into groups that define themselves as “we” and anyone not of the group as “you” is why elections and politics now descend to the level of turf battles between street gangs. With the winners convinced they have a “mandate” to hurt everyone else.

Especially “progressive” winners. Although “conservatives” often do it without realizing what they are doing. (Trying to be “bipartisan” here, from my “Truman/Eisenhower traditional liberal” position, folks.)

You know, I have a long track record in science and engineering (before I changed careers). The worst of the worst of the worst fools I ever had to deal with were those who viewed doubling-down on failure as “a good thing.”

The GOP had failed ideas?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Oh, shit. You’re serious, aren’t you?

Just remember THIS, CW – this is nothing personal to you, per se, but if we keep heading down this path, we will go bankrupt and collapse as a nation. And then, when that happens, all of those people who you Lefties dissed, all of those you screwed over to fund your witless social engineering ideas, all of them…will be out looking for someone’s blood.

So please, keep jacking your jaw and continue to queue yourself up as a target, four years hence. Should be amusing…but not for you.

Actually, the state level is where any real change in the federal government will have to come from. Geniuses like this CW think that the system works like: “we won, shut up, will of the voters!” Well, we aren’t a democracy, we are constitutional republic and if one were to take a look at Article V, they would see that the states have ultimate power over the entire federal government: executive, legislative, and judicial. They can propose and pass amendments without any input from any elected or appointed federal office holder.

Remember, the states created the federal government and the states can change it.

Well, lefty idiot, who expanded voting to non-citizens, dead people, non-existent people, and even dogs, cats, and cartoon characters? The Left used there hold on the city cesspools to generate enough votes to overwhelm the votes of the sane and productive parts of the Country.

We do control as many as 33 of the states today and we’re coming for you. There isn’t a union or a Democrat front group in the Country that can withstand a little scrutiny of their spending, their dues/income structure, their tax status in the states that have income tax, or their political activity. Give me a few investigators and government accountants and I can put ANYBODY who receives public funds in jail. We’re coming!

Now is not the time to obsess over tactical issues like early voting, but to take a step back and think about ideology and strategy. Along those lines, there’s a newly released book titled, “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government” (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230341691) that could help arm the right with a *principled* intellectual defense of freedom as an alternative to the typical mealy-mouthed, apologetic half-defense we usually hear.

Republicans need to once again become the party of freedom. In my view, Barry Goldwater was way ahead of his time, being for a strong national defense, while wanting the government out of both bedroom and boardroom. In this election, many would-be supporters of Romney’s message of fiscal discipline were scared away by Obama’s demagoguery on social issues. Let’s take that weapon away from them.

” And I seriously hope that the vast majority of PJMedia learn to accept that fact, take a few days to lick the wounds, and come to the actualization that it was not Mitt Romney but a wicked society and a corrupted media that cost us an election.

I was thinking tonight, being there is no such thing as a perfect candidate or a perfect campaign, I was proud to vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. In fact, it was the first time in 28 years of a Presidential campaign I actually was excited about my vote.

That is the part that saddens me the most tonight. I’m sure the reality of a SCOTUS makeup and Obamacare will sink in after reflection.

But the worst part for me is I cannot help but feel the Almighty laid a choice of good vs. evil before us today, and we chose evil.

I am vexed about my country.”

That phrase “wicked society and corrupt media” goes directly to the facts. You are so right. The dominant culture allowed her children’s souls to be poisoned by teaching them political correctness rather than independence, self reliance and love of country. And now we reap the whirlwind having produced the taking / entitled society that will be with us now, and growing, going forward.

And the corrupt media has been the ignored elephant nt then room at conservative media. Romney had only one or two chances to make a direct impression, unfiltered by the decadent media. Not enough for those voters unfamiliar with him. He even quipped about it at the Alfed E Smith dinner… and I paraphrase … I don’ make claims that the media is biased. They have their job to do and I have mine. My job is to lay out a vision of prosperity and leadership for the country, and their job is to make sure no one finds out about it.

I agree with Tex, election was about good and evil. And good did not prevail.

Mr. Radosh. The only way the culture changes is if we change our immigration policies. Think not? We already have parts of this country yearning for Sharia. We have third world peasants speaking their own languages getting handouts and sending it back to the old country. The time to change our culture is long gone. Fifty percent of America are stupid, greedy, antagonistic, and inimical to what America once was. And the dumb Republicans committed suicide years ago by not putting a stop to it. It is too late now. There will be a civil war in our future. Because millions of us are being governed without our consent and we don’t like the scum we are forced to live with nor the fact that our culture and property are being stolen to satisfy them and the left.

China has already stopped lending us money. That’s what QE3 is all about. The Fed is now just printing money. By the way, who has trillions upon trillions to loan a bankrupt nation? China ran out of money a while back and no one else has any. Think of it. Africa? That haven of hope. Not a dime. Europe? Been bankrupt for 20 years. Not a dime. South America? Are you kidding? The Fed is just printing money now trying to keep the Obama miracle alive a few more weeks.

Lefty idiot, that is a tired meme from the cesspool states and the Left. The federal inflow to The South is to support a firm Democrat constituency there that refuses to support itself. Norm income, taxation, etc. for race in the Red States. Norm federal spending in The West for what the US spends on its own interests versus what it spends on the citizens of those states. I live in Alaska one of the states you punks like to point to. The massive military presence here isn’t to protect me; it is to protect you. The huge Coast Guard presence here isn’t to fish me out of the drink if something happens when I’m out fishing, though they’d do that, it is to protect the tankers bring oil to the West Coast and the container ships bringing Chinese junk to the stores in the Lower 48. We’d be very happy to have the alphabet soup of federal agencies and their spoiled lefty employees leave. In the process they can deed all the land they’ve held on to to the State. We’ll even take complete responsibility for the federal Indians here if the BIA, the PHS, and the entire DoInterior will just leave our State.

In sum: Red States to Blue States -
Take your money and your government and LEAVE! Oh, and try to figure out how to survive without our natural resources; you can eat each other for awhile.

It’s funny how you nailed it. When the results finally came in the conversations I had with those closest to me ran as follows: I will never pay income taxes again. I will do what I have to to starve and deprive the junta government the resources they need to destroy me. And while I am at it, I will go on food stamps and avail myself of every freebie the enemy has taken from me.

So when I read your reaction I thought, why not? Because I have been hearing a variant of that following the debacle. How many people voted against Obama? FIFTY MILLION and more? What would happen if Atlas said enough! No thanks! What would happen if throughout this country a movement began where everyone who worked took their taxes and instead of having them paid directly to the government organized and all agreed to have them COLLECTED and DEPOSITED but not PAID to the US government but were paid instead to a RED STATE? Create mayhem. Create chaos. Because they are the tools of the left and we stand here, good little moral boys and girls and fight a “good fight”. Where were our panthers standing armed at the polls? Our poll watchers were being thrown out by the panthers’ errand boys. Did our candidate get nasty and lie? Did he fabricate and create straw men and viciously smear? What have we left? We were HONORABLE? We were NOBLE? How many reading my words will counter by saying that remaining above the fray is a sign of civility and that’s what counts? At this late date? A friend of mine lives in NYC and while she was watching the dissolution of our hopes cascading in front of her eyes all last night it was to the sounds of drums being beaten on the streets below. The natives were celebrating OBAMA – their caudillo, their strong man, their black warrior stuck it to the white man and life is good. Especially when you are paying for it.

And while I am at it, I will go on food stamps and avail myself of every freebie the enemy has taken from me.

If that’s to be the “new normal”, why not? Among other things, it would be an application of the Fox/Piven principle of “overloading the system”.

Or, as Margaret Thatcher might say, since “the problem with socialism is that sooner or later it runs out of other people’s money to spend”, the faster the number of “clients” exceeds the number of “contributors”, the faster the system becomes unable to survive.

Leaving its rulers the choices of adaptation (i.e., becoming something other than socialists)- or destruction. Either at their own hands or at the hands of the crowds who still want their “bread and circuses”.

My best guess is that this crop of “enlightened intellectuals” are so dogmatic that, like the Imperial Japanese high command in World War Two, they will stick with The Plan- and go down in flames with it.

In the end, sanity will probably prevail. But as with any illness, what happens between now and then is going to hurt.

Your assumption that the current crop of socialist rulers will see the implosion of the system once they run out of other people’s money as a sign to change their ways is flawed. They view this as a feature. One that will give them excuse they need/want to demand absolute power to redress the new wrongs: wrongs that their socialist system created. And a desperate people will go right along with it.

The collectivist movement abandoned the concept of world wide violent revolution and replaced it with a piecemeal one where they would erode working systems from within over time. The tyrant-wanna-bes learned that throwing the frog in boiling water rarely worked well, but if they put the frog in a pot of water and then turned up the temperature, gradually, the frog would be content to just boil.

Actually, we think alike. I don’t expect them to change, and I do expect them to start mumbling darkly about “extreme measures” and then put them into effect.

Historically, that has always been the death knell of all totalitarian regimes’. At some point, their ability to “succeed in spite of themselves” breaks down. “Extreme measures” and pursuing dogmas that clearly have no contact with reality just hastens the process.

Would-be Messiahs and etc. never learn a basic lesson. That being that starting an avalanche is much easier than stopping it, and that there is no such thing as exercising fine control of one.

They believe they can control everything, and when the collapse happens, they can control that, too, to such a fine degree that they and theirs will be unscathed to build Utopia anew upon the ruins.

Actually, an avalanche, once started, goes on until it reaches the bottom of the hill. And getting in front of it to try to aim it just gets you buried very, very deep.

It’s BEEN time for secession. What would happen if the former Confederate States seceded again, and took other like thinking states with them? We wouldn’t have the slavery issue to deal with anymore. The former Confederate States have self reliant and (dare I say it) Christian people and those people could certainly forge a decent economy. They’d throw the illegals out on their collective asses by mandate or violence if need be. They wouldn’t abort their future children like the heathen. They wouldn’t champion homosexuality and fornication. They’d probably have laws based more the Scriptures, you know, like America used to. They wouldn’t have a huge standing army, but they’d have the weapons ready to be manned if the need arose. All healthy males would have to go basic training and know how to work those weapons. The government would keep its nose out of the people’s lives. If a business failed, the government wouldn’t hand it the PEOPLE’S money to stay afloat. Criminals would be executed for capital crimes, not housed, clothed and fed at taxpayer expense. With no standing army, such a nation wouldn’t fly its military off to other countries to fight THEIR wars for them.

There will be no civil war, or it’d already have started. Those who’re not looters and moochers are too stunted, too beaten, to even consider resistance, just as we are in Europe.
Here, it’s in part because we aren’t and can’t ever be armed and trained, while our adversaries are armed and trained.
In the US, it’s because you’re too scattered, and too distrusting even of your own kind, to realise there’s enough of you to make a difference, let alone to gather together and work to exact change on your society. You’re more likely to take those weapons and use them to kill your conservative brothers than to defend your right to own them from the liberal police chief and his paid cronies.

JTW, I doubt that the US military would ever go to war against its own citizens. The real power of the federal government comes from automatic withholding from paychecks and ability to give us part of it back. If they inflate the dollar to death, there is nothing to keep citizens from drifting away from their government. No currency, no power.

Good points,all of you. It is a very scary thing to be surrounded by the idiots who voted for this anti-American, narcissistic empty suit AGAIN. The fact that blacks in America have been the group hardest hit by unemployment due to the Obama recession and STILL voted for him overwhelmingly AGAIN is sickening to me.

Why should you be surprised that Obama has laid waste to the “black community” and yet they still chant his name and raise their hands in adoration? His kind hacks to death his subjects all up and down the dark continent of Africa and they still yearn for the strongman.

You first. Stop lying. Can lefties actually tell the truth? Blacks have always been underemployed? Whose fault is that? Still trying to push the patriarchal myth they are incapable of acting like adults? You RACIST. Obama DESTROYED 5 million jobs. Liar.

>> the Republicans lost the Senate with the two candidates who made outrageous statements that Romney simply dealt with by saying he did not agree, but refused to take away his endorsements which would have indicated he meant business. No one expected the unpopular Claire McCaskill to win, but Todd Akin’s ridiculous statements led even her to win, as did Richard Murdouck’s outrageous views on rape as something God intended resulted in victory for his Democratic opponent.

Murdock doesn’t think God intended rape. He meant that God intended the birth of a child. He said it clumsily enough that it could be interpreted the former way for those that wished to tar him. Maybe even mentioning God sounds crazy now, or maybe people watch the reaction of others to know what to think. Heck I don’t know, but if the answer is smooth politicians who give poll-tested answers it doesn’t matter much anyway does it? Throwing these two under the bus wouldn’t have won the election tonight. The fact that Radosh thinks it would shows how out of ideas he is. He can be glad many of us will merely say we disagree rather than repudiate him. He should have kept silent rather than speaking bitter nothings ASAP after the results were announced. They explain nothing and help not at all.

Throwing these two under the bus wouldn’t have won the election tonight. The fact that Radosh thinks it would shows how out of ideas he is.

You’re simply not grasping the obvious. The left portrays the GOP as out of touch types dominated by bible beating fools who would be happy to impose their religious beliefs rather than work on the issues of the era. Mourdock and Akin popped up and the **only** thing the left needed to do is point and say “See? Told ya so.”

And as long as the GOP is in bed with wannabe statist social conservative culture warriors and teabaggers, they will continue to get pasted.

Of course I don’t think you noticed that Akin and Mourdock both lost election bids that should have been easily winnable.

So, Jeff, any argument that suggests that religious claptrap doesn’t belong in national politics must by definition be something only a leftist can possibly think of? Yeah, I must be a leftist, just like the Missouri electorate who voted overwhelmingly for Romney and rejected Akin like yesterday’s garbage. They seem to think like I do. The problem you culture warrior losers have is that you can’t envision that people vote GOP and not be part of your little club. Get a clue. You don’t call the shots, and people like me intend to put an end to you even *thinking* that you have something useful to say.

randomengineer: “religious claptrap doesn’t belong in national politics”
“You don’t call the shots, and people like me intend to put an end to you even *thinking* that you have something useful to say.”

Why is it that atheists are so arrogant? I suppose you have to be arrogant to *think* you *know* there is no God.

You disgusting egotistical buffoon. Your oozing arrogance and self righteousness is a wrenching display of everything I despise about people like you.

“You don’t call the shots, and people like me intend to put an end to you even *thinking* that you have something useful to say.” This, this very sentence here is exactly the antithesis of a someone who believes in freedom. You friggin non-religious puritans, who think you are so much smarter than everyone else for jettisoning morals while keeping the puritanical culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to try to keep people from even thinking something you don’t agree with, are incapable of the shame you should have.

You and the others like you are the intellectual heirs of Oliver Cromwell. Yet you are so sure you are running from the old witch burners you will never be able to understand how you are actually their modern day standard bearers.

The Romney campaign couldn’t have been a more perfect test case for whether an anodyne fiscal conservatism, stripped of (or embarrassed by) any social or religious concerns, can suffice to win over the ballyhooed “middle.” It can’t. You had your chance at a trial run with your ideal nominee. It wasn’t enough. And it turns out that we can lose as easily without social principles as with them.

So screw it. If the freaking ROMNEY campaign, of all things, inspires fears of theocracy, then there’s no point in assuaging the fears of anyone who’s susceptible to them. It’s time to spray the party for libertarians, take out the socially latitudinarian trash, sow the ground with salt, and mix any metaphors left unmixed. If the ’12 GOP campaign looked like a pursuit of the culture wars to you, then you don’t know what culture wars are. It’s time to really brown some Dockers. Deus lo vult.

Old Soldier,
There’s the door. Really. You are why we lost. Go, join some other party. Join the Libertarians, or the Greens, or the Democrats. Make up your own party. But, just go. And don’t come back.

As I read Ron’s piece and the comments, it dawned on me that the folks who voted for Romney are connected by core principles, the idea that this country is the last best hope on earth, that God is our Creator and that free markets make men free. The Obama coalition is knitted together by an eclectic collection of small bore promises not shared universally but targeted to individual interest groups. I believe in our core principles. I believe that a large number of Obama voters share them. The only way to win this debate is to engage them in a serious way. If our efforts of persuasion fail, then we will know that the Republic is doomed, but freedom, love and faith have served us well in the past and will serve us again in the future.

Do you have a life or is it wrapped up in stalking me? I’m flattered. Either way, pay attention, loser — the Missouri voters told teabagging bible thumper Akin to get stuffed, and Mourdock was told the same thing. Gee, that’s got to sting for you culture warrior geniuses. After all, you’re one of the bleating twits who seem to think the GOP isn’t teabaggy enough, not “conservative” enough, and gee, if only the voters got a chance to vote for a REAL CONSERVATIVE, why, they would do so overwhelmingly. Man, that’s got to really hurt getting your ideological ass stomped like that.

Oh, and thanks for helping Obama win, traitor. The last thing the country needed was Obama. You feeling proud?

Stalking you? You’re a one trick pony with the same bylines in each thread, spewing hate all over this site. You take up bandwidth, offering nothing but boilerplated smoke that most find asinine. What are you? Some loner lashing out? Who in the hell would want to be in your company? You belong at Kos with the rest of life’s dregs.

Of all the people I’ve read here, you’re the most hateful and the most vacuous package all in one. You’re completely irrelevant. If we followed your wishes, we’d be North Korea.

I haven’t read a person here that respects your abject stupidity, or agrees with your inane conclusions. Or have you not noticed that you’re persona non grata in virtually every thread, dummy?

I guarantee you that nobody is going to miss you here if you graced us with your absence. Just do us a favor before you leave permanently, so many of us can can throw a party at your leaving. I’ll by the drinks.

You’re blustering Tex; RE has the common sense position here. But the whole argument sets out the problem that the left can come together easier than the right can. Their economics may be screwed up, but the social issues are NOT, nor will they go your way. For Beleeevers, that is a pill they will never swallow, and since they are in the Republican tent, it is a Republican problem to solve.

randomenginer aka randomengineer
The “stalkers” must have rattled you – you’re misspelling your own name.
First you write ignorant, arrogant and insulting comments attacking social conservatives. These are ostensibly your allies since you claim to detest Obama. Then you whine like a little girl about being “stalked” when someone replies to your drivel.
Snap out of it, man. You’re sitting in front of a computer in someone’s basement composing hate screeds, not being “stalked” by anyone.
I don’t mind atheists or theists who have some common sense and maintain a little humility. But you’re the aggressive egotistical type. It’s a big universe and there’s no chance (you’re not as intelligent as you think you are) you have it figured out correctly.

Dwight:
So you don’t like “Beleeevers” but you like the common sense of random, the village atheist.
I see you enjoy snarky criticism of others but you say nothing about what YOU “beleeeve” yourself, if anything.
What’s it all about Dwight? Give us your worldview in a few concise paragraphs. Maybe someone will critique it for you. I’m sure it will be fun.
You probably believe in something, or are you a nihilist?

My policy as a general principle is 2-2-2. 2% decrease in spending across the board, not cherry-picked, including the military, 2% increase in taxes, focused mostly on the 1%, but in a token fashion applied to everyone; and 2% more taken out of pension payouts via a variety of changes. Gay marriage is fine with me; I don’t like abortion, but am not going to be very proscriptive about what the mother carrying the foetus decides.

I just heard Boehner. All he, Obama, and Reid have to do is agree on my numbers and figure out how to sell the way they get there to their bases.

You’re simply not grasping the obvious. The left portrays the GOP as out of touch types dominated by bible beating fools who would be happy to impose their religious beliefs rather than work on the issues of the era.

That is exactly correct. There are -college educated, now – dullards running around that truly believe the Mitt Romney was going to: “force them to go to Church”, “force them to join a religion”, etc, etc….

College. Educated. *head>———>desk*

That is how close we are to Idiocracy. That is how brainwashed these people (20-25′s) are.

USMC,
I’m sure you’re familar with the phrase ‘you might as well get hanged for a sheep as for a goat’. No matter who the GOP puts up its going to be ‘the rise of theocracy’ so how about we put up someone who will actually Enthuse the Base and Solve Problems (unlike RINO Romney).

This requires purging the libertarians from the Party.

The problem for the RINOS is that they know what to do, but with a hundred thousand bad decisions they’ve put themselves on the wrong side of history. At this point, the best the RINOS can hope for is to be cast aside by the raging floodwaters of history, and reduced to a footnoted anecdote of ‘idiots’ if they do the right thing. If they do the wrong thing, and insist on control, they will destroy the nation, and go down in flames.

Its really a hard place to be in.

Their best chance is to do what McCain did with Palin. Choose Conservatives as their legacy and hope the conservatives are grateful enough that they don’t trash the predecessor who deserves trashing. But that requires RINOS to act with respect, and class, and insight. Its possible.

There will be plenty more but I don’t know that any of it will make any difference. The media are so bad that they will not report anything that will damage the electoral chances of Democrats and they will endlessly repeat any foolish misstatement of any Republican. I keep waiting and hoping for the rest of the media to go the way of Newsweek but I just don’t think it is going to happen.

This election is just a symptom. The America I grew up in and loved is over. What is left is just a walking dead zombie that looks like the old country but is just the decaying remains walking around. I mourn the loss but I don’t expect it to ever recover.

The media are so bad that they will not report anything that will damage the electoral chances of Democrats and they will endlessly repeat any foolish misstatement of any Republican. I keep waiting and hoping for the rest of the media to go the way of Newsweek but I just don’t think it is going to happen.

I think the media is a huge symptom of the problem.

If Benghazi had happened under a GOP president, they would have hammered him 24/7 with it, but because it was Obama they collectively yawned.

Everything I have seen released on this matter only makes this administration look worse. It is pretty clear that Patraeus lied to congress and Obama lied to the people. We are getting some timelines, although some are in conflict and the time line I most want to see is the one Obama will never release-the one of what the president was doing and each decision he made as the attacks unfolded.

My hope is that now that the media has gotten their guy elected they will cover this story-if for no other reason than that the American people deserve to know the truth, but the media seems to only care about the truth when the truth harms the republican in office or seeking office.

I am still ticked off that the story the day after our Ambassador was murdered was Mitt Romney’s gaffe. I am willing to be there was more Sunday Morning talk show coverage of the Romney gaffe than the Obama failure (Fox News excluded).

I hope the House continues to pursue the truth, but they will probably get stonewalled by Obama and the media will participate in the stonewalling.

Conservatism only appeals to people with some intellectual capability who hold to middle class values. Cultural Marxism has been successful in wiping out traditional middle class values, as witnessed tonight by the adoption of gay marriage by voters in two states and legalization of MJ in two others. The long slow economic decline of America is well on its way, but until the electricity no longer works, the water company can’t pump, and there’s little or no food or gas available, the sheep will continue to be led to slaughter. I simply refuse to participate in the schemes of Leviathan and will quietly fight my own one man nonviolent guerilla war against the monster. Meanwhile, I miss the love and respect for law and tradition Americans once had.

Oh Tex, your nostalgia for 30 years ago is touching but your memories of those days are clouded. Name a welfare program or cabinet-level agency Reagan abolished. Ain’t none. Not even the ridiculous National Endowment for the Arts got eliminated.

Reagan got elected in 1980, Democrats screamed “Don’t cut!”, Reagan felt the heat and shied away from the kitchen. He changed from tax financing to debt financing of the Democrat welfare state agenda, he didn’t repeal or even reform it. Go read David Stockman’s book, it’s all in there. Sure, Reagan was better than the alternative and won great foreign policy victories but on the home front he did not reverse the welfare state tide.

And who bailed out Citibank’s bad loans to Latin American governments? Whose actions to bail out Continental Illinois, then the US’s seventh largest bank, added the phrase “too big to fail” joining the vocabulary of American political economy? Yep, Reagan and Reagan’s.

Gee, what a surprise. Not. The problem is cities are controlling national politics. They have an overwhelming advantage. Even states like Montana light up blue along the cities of route 90. Northeast and Far West – gone. WA State is controlled by a few counties with large cities while most of the state lights up red. Some future for our kids – debt, decay, and the growth of the loser class. Anyway, Mayans called this election a long time ago. TEOTWAWKI.

That reminds me of the situation just before the War of Southern Independence. The South was being told what to do by the industrial North and tariffed on their cotton to an extreme. Finally the South got fed up and seceded. But the tyrant Lincoln wanted his precious Union at any cost and attacked us.

The first thing that needs to be acknowledged is that the pundits and polsters lacked any situational awareness regarding the political psychology that was on the street. Their lack of contact with reality misled a multitude, including me. I will never be able to trust these people as a class ever again.

The intellectual fabric and DNA of our nation, and much of western thought is being eroded away by half truth and intellectual laziness. I got into a debate with a brother in law two years ago about the durability of civilizations. He theorized that societies atrophy and wither because decay is part of the natural order of things. I disagreed at the time, but his observation caused me to think about whether he might in the long run be right. Tonight I realized he was correct.

Our nation is now in the hands of a very destructive intellectually limited collection of statists. I think right now it is unlikely to remain as the founding fathers envisioned. Instead, it is likely to be disembowled by those amoung us who find our history and traditions foreign and disorderly.

The United States is on the path to join a long list of other societies that exist only historically. It appears that decay is the primary force in human affairs.

Carroll Quigley, in The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, has another take on this subject that I’ve found fascinating – and possibly more correct. He postulated that Western civilizations proceed through the following stages:

1. Mixture – different societies come into contact and produce a society with an outlook different from any of the combined parts.

2. Gestation – the period of time between the mixing of the different societies and the expansion of the civilization.

3. Expansion – the surplus generated by the society is invested in activities that benefit the civilization. This can include an increase in knowledge, increase in physical area, technological advancements that increase efficiency, etc. Civilizations make use of different instruments of expansion. Quigley calls a social organization or unit an instrument if it meets social needs.

4. Age of Conflict – The rate of increase resulting from the use of one or more social instruments slows down which results in “interesting times”. The instrument can be reformed or a new instrument consistent with the civilization’s outlook can circumvent the old instrument. If reform is achieved, a new age of expansion begins. If the vested interests of the previous instrument of expansion increasingly consume resources while serving no social needs, Quigley says that the instrument has then become an institution. Expansion can continue, but it is at the expense of neighbors, which leads to imperialist wars. When the vested interests have crushed all internal opposition, the next stage appears.

5. Universal Empire – typically a state or political unit on the periphery of the civilization gains power over the whole civilization. The illusion of a golden age appears. The social organization remains stagnant.

6. Decay – lack of belief in the civilization’s outlook or inability to meet needs of the people leads to people opting out of the system. An age of cynicism, low cunning and despair.

7. Invasion – external forces disrupt the civilization’s social organization and it is unable or unwilling to defend itself. That spells the end of the civilization.

Quigley stated that modern Western civilization as embodied by America has succeeded in arriving at the brink of the Age of Conflict stage no fewer than four times, but has always managed to reinvigorate itself by launching into a new Age of Expansion. Recall that expansion in Quigley’s terms doesn’t necessarily apply to the acquisition of new territory. If he’s correct, we’re now out of options, and that we’ve progressed rapidly through to stage 6. As you may know, I have my own ideas about what’s going on with respect to the role that the will to power has played in modern times.

I see Quigley’s sequence as less “more correct” than Toynbee’s than a refinement of same, much the way the Wheeler-Feynman time-symmetric theory is a refinement of Einstein’s General Theory rather than an alternative to it.

Quigley’s stages more-or-less subdivide Toynbee’s, resulting in a more accurate description of the events in each stage and their interelationshp. Thus, Quigley’s “Universal Empire” stage is basically Toynbee’s “Golden Age”, while Toynbee’s “Time of Troubles” Quigley subdivides into “Decay” and “Invasion”.

What both have in common is predicting that after the Fall, there will be an interregnum before the rise of the next great civilization.

BTW, I would say we are uncomfortably close to the “Invasion” stage, right now. “Decay” has been going on since I was in elementary school. As one example, when my father was a police officer in the 1930s and 1940s, the heaviest armament in his cruiser was a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, and the only thing he ever actually used other than a nightstick was his .38 Special revolver, which in fifteen years on active duty he fired on duty exactly once.

Thirty-odd years later, I carried a .45 caliber automatic, backed up by a 12-gauge pump and sometimes a .30 caliber carbine. And I was just a crime-scene tech.

(All of the above was required by regs. My other option on the sidearm was a .357 revolver- period. And the carbine was in preference to a .45 caliber SMG, usually an Ingram, a weapon I had little use for due to its near-uncontrollability in full-auto fire.)

Today, most departments issue 9mm automatics, have pump or semi-auto 12-gauge guns in the cruiser, and many (including ours here) have selective-fire carbines in .223 in the trunk.

If we’re so much more “civilized” now, as our “enlightened ones” claim, why are our streets so much more dangerous?

I suspect that my definition of “civilization” isn’t quite the same as theirs.

Conservatives will have to run with only women and minorities now. White men are DONE until there is a serious riot/crisis. The white man has no masculine identity anymore, and this means no political power until the next crisis/riot.

A good question, and one whose answer many of you are going to dislike.

As many of our Progressyve chums take a perverse glee in pointing out, White Americans are on track to become a minority in this country sometime,(I have noted that it is mostly White Progressyves who take delight in stating this, btw).

If that indeed be the case, White people will inevitably become Racially Aware, and then they will start acting and voting like a competing minority, instead of the paternalistic “Nice Guys” confident of their power-base.

And we will have to deal with something like that which Black folks have had to address for hundreds of years…the phenomenon of the Self-hating White Person.

It will not be pretty, but it WILL happen.

The day of racial bloc voting by White people is that much closer today than it might otherwise have been.

And who will indict us for it? Those who saw Black voter turnout for Obama above 90% and yet failed to cry “Racist”?

I just love this “only women and minorities” business. Becuase of course “women”: and “minoritites” are never serious contenders for anything but hanging off “white men” are they, no matter how many crappy jobs they do to hold themselves and their families together.

Maybe if the male Republicans didn’t think of “women and minorites” as ciphers they could have worked togetherto defeat Obama an Co.

Naturally I’m generalising – not all male Republicans/Conservatives are as obtuse as this poster. Many fighters like Andrew Breitbart and Ron Radosh and David Horowitz were/are at least able to deal with some of the realities even if they didn’t articluate everything. And the Ann Coulters and Diana Wests have done much of the fighting/.articulating the battle and the need for strategy, as has Michelle Malkin and Ann Barnhardt.
But where were the fighters in Washington? Too ready to join the UN One World MOney pit, too ready to play as mock-lefties to get some of the spoils??
Who knows?

“Those opposed to the direction Obama favors should provide serious and meaningful alternatives of their own, and present them to the nation.”

Good luck with that when the media refuses to report on the Republican alternatives.

The Tea Parties have been a mixed blessing. Yes, they bring energy to an innervated party still undecided on whether it wants to be Rockefeller/McCain party or a Gingrich/Ryan party. But they have simply got to stop presenting us with candidates like Akin and Mourdock and Angle who have no message discipline and can’t be trusted in front of a microphone lest their bizarre ideas leak out. For God’s sake and the sake of the Republic, develop better grooming and vetting standards!!!!!!!!!! Do what Gingrich did: identify appealing young people, get them some useful experience, groom them for bigger stages, school them in message, and get them on the ballot.

You will never find candidates with more message discipline than Romney and Ryan. Those two have nearly inhuman self-discipline. And while it got them far, it wasn’t good enough. There will never be anyone better than they, so message discipline isn’t any route to success. And neither is “clarity” or “speaking up.” They laid out a very clear difference with Team Obama, and they spoke up just fine on his important failures and follies. Benghazi is a vicious evil screw-up, but it ranks up there with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, or Reagan’s retreat from Lebanon, or any number of other sleazy but small-bore Presidential sins. The IMPORTANT stuff was running the entire engine of American enterprise off the cliff into an endless vicious cycle of predation and parasitism that will destroy the spirit of the republic. R & R pointed this out perfectly clearly, and the voters, with eyes open, rejected it.

And, frankly, I think what we’ve now seen is that there isn’t a route to success any more. There is no solution to this problem. You’ll note that once statist enervation and decline set into the British Empire, it didn’t really turn back. There was a brief Indian Summer during the Thatcher years, but aside from that, it’s been a pretty straight line decay from 1919 onward. The British lion is a joke. Same with France, Germany.

In the West, we’re the Romans, circa 300 AD. The party will go on for a while, but the end is in sight, for those with foresight. The cancer is already metastasized, and there is no cure, but the patient can still dance a mighty fine two-step and slam down the margaritas with gusto tonight. Woo hoo!

The interesting question is what will replace us (culturally, I mean. Genetically, we will probably have descendants in the new regime, who vigorously reject our philosophy). Radical Islam would be my guess, honestly. It has all the brutish crude vigor of the barbarian — the high birth rates, the cynical contempt for moral subtleties, the driving ambition, particularly among its young men, and (ironically enough) the utter contempt for stereotypically female concerns that (as we have just seen) destroy the will to not merely get by but excel in a society. It ain’t “women’s issues” that take a nation to the Moon, or to settle a new continent, or become the leader of the Free World, and when those issues dominate a leadership choice to the exclusion of questions like can you actually pay your bills next year — well, it’s over. Frivolity reigns supreme.

Yes, radical Islam are jerks and whiners and violent breakers of promises. That’s just what the polished urbane Roman citizen said about the smelly illiterate uneducated German hordes outside the city wall. It was always a mistake to think being civilized makes a society strong. It’s the other way around: only strong societies can afford the luxury of being civilized.

What about China. It seems they are rethinking their “one child” policy and even overlooking the birth of a second child in many cases. Apparently they don’t want to be a nation of senior citizens like Japan will be one day.
China is still ruled by totalitarian communist dictators who can decide pretty much whatever they like, in spite of the weird “boomtown” communism they’ve developed to keep the thing going. They may get more aggressive one day. Will the West be ready if they do?

The GOP actually has some appealing young people, and I agree grooming them is the best move to make. The party needs to move away from the “it’s his turn, they paid their dues” crap.

The only problem I see is that the DNC is very good at identifying our promising young candidates and effectively assassinating their character so as to make them unviable as candidates. The DNC has all but destroyed Bobby Jindal for national office and he is probably one of the brightest and eloquent young GOP governors we have.

I also think a good move would be to create another contract with America type move-only problem is while it might be a message that appeals in 2014, I am not sure if the last 2 years of a lame duck presidency is going to get much done.

Oh and the GOP needs to choose senate candidates wisely. The GOP pretty much handed to senate seats to the democrats and I am on the abortion issue about as conservative as they come, but thought those two men sounded like idiots (assists from the media also helped).

This one of the dumber reactions to Obama’s loss, and shows why Radosh is fundamentally unserious.

Demographics is destiny. Import a quarter of Mexico, you get Mexico’s politics. Mexicans will never vote for Gringos or Gringo politics. They’ll vote for welfare for their kids who have kids at age 16, Affirmative Action, importing half their relatives (who immediately go on welfare) and fantasies about Mexicans being anything other than what they were there or are here.

Second, most White women are Sandra Fluke. Sad but true. Has Radosh hung around any young White women? They make Fluke look like a nun, adore Obama and non-White guys generally, Blacks specifically as magical repositories of wisdom, goodness, and masculinity. That’s why Obama went on the View.

It wasn’t the hurricane. It wasn’t the media. It wasn’t Chris Christie or Bloomberg. It was America importing Mexicans, who voted to take White people’s money (and jobs) and give it to them and their relatives. Importing Mexicans is as stupid as hiring a Dominican Nanny to take care of your kids, and treat her as half an employee, half family. Stupid. Anyone surprised she stabbed those kids? Not me. That’s the fate of White people when non-Whites get mad. Duh.

Bottom line. America is dead. Its over. Obama will open up the borders completely, make citizenship by fiat for most of Mexico, gas at $10 a gallon, reparations for slavery, White male as codified third-class status, and all the rest of the stuff he’s been yearning for. Maybe nuke Israel. Don’t think most White women wouldn’t be down for that either. Stanley Ann Dunham was not a fluke. She was a Sandra Fluke. And again, that’s most (not all but most) White women under 45. All under 40.

What matters most is survival. Leave the corpse of America for any bolthole.

Obama won because America is filled with Mexicans, and most White women are sluts. Simple as that. There’s nothing else you need to know. That’s not changing either, you can’t make a slut a virgin, or turn Mexicans into sedate Anglos. Most women like being sluts and will fight to remain free to practice slutdom. Obama is their fantasy Alpha male, and they eat that up like junk reality.

Here’s a rebuttal of sorts. All those “slutty” white women are not really looking for fun and lots of sex — although that’s what they may consciously think — as they are looking to become mothers with someone (or the government) to support them as they raise their kids. (Biological imperatives are extremely powerful but the most basic ones tend to work in hidden ways.) A married woman raising young children, depending on her husband’s income and with no desire to have that income taxed away for frivolous reasons, will vote sensibly.

I wonder whether “whiskey” or “randomengineer” have tried to do their biological duty to convert young white women into sensible voters.

There won’t be any sensible rebuttal from the “engineer”.
Here are a couple of quotes “randomly” selected from his ravings.
1.”Oh, and thanks for helping Obama win, traitor. The last thing the country needed was Obama. You feeling proud?”
2.”Racist much, jackass? You’re the enemy. Not Obama. You.”
1. Obama is the enemy and you helped him win, “traitor”!
2. Obama isn’t the enemy, you are, you “racist”!
The internal dissonance may explain some of the irrational hostility.

Again, rather harsh rhetoric to make a valid point. Republicans need to decide if they want to nurse their fear of immigrants, or win elections? Latinos now constitute almost 17% of the US population, the second largest ethnic group after “white” Americans. Do we all know who gets included as “white”? Italians and the Irish, to name two ethnic groups which also were formerly considered “other” and unassimilable.

I am convinced if the House passed the dream act tomorrow and then declared open borders that the Latinos other than Cubans would still march in lockstep to the polls to vote for the liberal.

Latinos much like the African American vote is one that the GOP just isn’t going to win, because the DNC screams racist very effectively.

Race in this country is going to be important, but I have become jaded in the sense that the GOP is constantly told to do things to reach out to minorities, but even those who do reach out get booted out of office.

These minority groups will continue to vote for the democrats as long as the democrats keep promising to give them free stuff. The GOP might open the borders, but they aren’t going to promise free stuff, so they aren’t going to get those votes.

Bart, have you seen many anti-immigration Republican candidates? ILLEGAL immigration is the problem – about 14 million illegal immigrants now live in the US – but the media and the Democrats have successfully made it seem as if conservatives are strongly against LEGAL immigration too.
It’s probably too late to do anything about it. A first world nation with open borders and the third world at its doorstep is in big trouble. That the US can’t or won’t defend its border in this way is a travesty, but at least get the facts right.

Racist? This election will open a floodgate of truth telling this nation hasn’t seen in fifty years or more. The scum floating in from the southern border is devouring this country. State by state. If it wasn’t do you think the scum in the WH would grant them amnesty? Would he have stomped on our laws to give breaks to white Christian conservatives from anywhere? Right now white South Africans are being slaughtered by their neighbors in the “Rainbow” country. Anything being done to give these people amnesty? What do you think would happen if they showed up wanting to be let in for fear of their lives? Do you think the thug in the WH would comply? The racist is Obama. First because he has so little regard for Mexicans that he believes they are stupid enough to be used as battering rams and they won’t realize it. And secondly, he is using them to wreak his revenge on white America. Obama is the racist and your are too stupid to understand his strategy.

Well, idiot lefty sanitationengineer, is “racist” the only word you punks know? He was a little harsh, but I didn’t hear any rebuttal, just name calling; typical lefty punk.

The vast majority of the women I knew in government were either sluts or, at best, serial monogamists. What’s really going on with an attractive if high mileage 40 year old woman on husband four and with hundreds of notches carved in her bedposts? Most were manipulative, devious, and would trip you, beat you to the ground, and call a reporter on their way down.

I was on the phone with an old colleague yesterday exchanging election predictions; sadly I got it right. We were talking about this very subject. We’re both early ‘Boomers and spent most of our working life with our age and demographic cohort and the last decade or so as high-level managers supervising younger workers, mostly 20-30-somthings. We were trying to think of the people we knew who were still with Spouse 1.0 and out of the dozens of people who over the years had worked with or for us, could only think of two couples that were together when we first met and were still together today. Other than those two couples, every man I know has been left by one or more wives who simply didn’t want to be married anymore or who had found somebody who made more or, at least for the moment, curled their toes better. Other than those two, every woman I knew had been unfaithful to one or more husbands/partners, and, yes, in some cases I have first hand knowlege.

The Left/academia/media have destroyed American culture and the American family. The Soros Cabal and the first four years of Obamunism have destroyed the savings and asset value of the middle-aged middle class and made it impossible for most of the young to have any hope of becoming middle-aged middle class. My oldest, age 41, lives quite well but at the price of constant fear of the buyout or hostile takeover that causes her to show up to work one day and find her key doesn’t work any more. My stepkids, age 26, 28, and 30 will never live as well as we have to some degree as the result of their own popular culture driven choices and to some degree because of the Soros coup d’etat.

I’m not a secessionist nor a Go Galt type, though there’s more than a bit of Galt sympathy in me. I’m going to tend my own vegetables and look to the politics of my own still Red but trending Purple states. I’m not going to care much what happens in the Blue places, but if you come here, I’ll be happy to ride to the sound of the guns.

You nailed it. The right wing has to find an underground now, outside of politics, because it is now at an end game.

By 2050 the West Coast and East Coast will be two halves of the Empire. Conservatives might get about half of a half, if we’re lucky. That’s the fate we chose, but beta male Republicans will never realize that the choice was made in 1965.

While there are certainly those who might not like the tone or ideas Whiskey is expressing in his opinion, the simple, factual case is that he’s closer to the mark than anyone else responding here, especially in citing the truism that demographics is destiny.

Here are the some of the demographic groups that Obama can count on with 80% to 90% favorability:
- Jews
- Blacks
- Homosexuals, Transgender, etc…
- Single woman of all races, ages (bet this one is surprising!)
- PhD’s, all disciplines
- Stupid white people, all ages and sexes

And here’s where he has a very comfortable majority – about 60% or more:
- Hispanics
- Pagans, atheists, agnostics, and non-Christians in general…
- Union members
- graduate students

Other than union members and Jews, all these demographic groups are growing…. significantly.

The ONLY demographic group that the Republicans have as a base, are white married people who go to church. In particular, Protestants. And even amongst those, only about 60% majority. Sadly, the-white-people-who-go-to-church demographic is rapidly shrinking, with no signs of slowing down.

For the first time in American history, single adult woman outnumber married adult woman. Think about that….

The liberals control our schools, our entertainment and our media. Basically everything that makes up what we call culture. And because of that, their political and social messages absolutely dominate the USA. Their base will only expand, the conservative base will only contract for the foreseeable future.

I’ve seen many neighborhoods and counties, and even the entire state of Illinois become overwhelming Democratic in my lifetime. It use to be that the Democrats ruled Chicago and a few suburbs, but Republicans controlled almost everything else, even Cook County. But now the whole state is controlled by the Chicago-Democrat machine, with the notable exception of most of the rural counties. But there’s far too few people in these counties to make a difference, as the rural American demographic is also shrinking rapidly.

Having said all that, I think this is about as good as an outcome as we can hope for. Mitt did not run a perfect campaign, but he did far more right than wrong. As for Obama, all he had to do is show up.

Our country is, truly, becoming more liberal in every way, everyday. The signs and signals are all around for those smart enough to read them.

People greatly deceive themselves if they think electing a conservative President is going to change this, as that is the wrong place to start. Obama is simply the summation of what we’ve become as a nation, like it or not. It’s not the president who is going to change the way things are moving….but the people.

As long as liberals dominate the culture (and population) as they do now, there’s really no hope for a better political future.

At this point, THIS conservative is through. I have had it with the Republican establishment foisting moderate candidates that cannot win upon us. I am finished. I will NOT support another moderate candidate. Do you HEAR ME ROVE, ET AL?? YOU are responsible for this mess. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS. Get me a CONSERVATIVE candidate. Or I’m DONE.

You actually thought that the guy who created the blueprint for Obamacare would defeat Obama? Did it ever occur to you that maybe they were actually on the same team playing good cop, bad cop, and lemmings like you were being played? get a clue….

What about the Constitution Party? They have good ideas, but no backers. Same to the rest of you. You talk about the Constitution, and that’s all well and good, but this party has a leadership that understands the document for the most part and with the proper backing, they COULD field a viable candidate. As long as we continue putter along with this useless (and unconstitutional I might add) two party system giving us no real choices, we’re sunk.

What should conservatives do? Nothing. Why bother? Clearly, Americans prefer the road we’re on. Gramsci won and there’s nothing that we can do to change that. Instead let the Democrats give free rein to their statist tendencies, speed spoil hasten plunder, and maybe we’ll be able to pick up the pieces after the calamity hits. At this point America is a runaway train and we can’t stop it.

Nations deserve the governments they have. Obama is what Americans want. A corrupt and lying media is what Americans want.

Aha – tbhis must be that ‘white Male” fghting spirit we hear so much about.

Conservatives only began to fight the Marxists when the Tea Party – initiated by women – started their rallies. Various ex Commies like David Horowitz began discussing the menace years ago and no one could be bothered listening, taking action or paying attention to what was happening in the universities, state education or local politics.
Instead of taking on the Lefties, Republicans and Cinservatives sat around whining about how women liked them, the immigrants were winnning blah blah blah. No serious campaigning, no examnination of tactics, no serious support of the few fighters who actually did do something, no learning of campaign techniques a la the Saul Alinskyites.
Oh well…it’s the same in many places, but in America, it’s bigger.

The bell Tolls for Norquist and Rove and good riddance to both. Their ego’s took the core to a dark blind alley.
Rove is probably explaining where it all went wrong to Koch brothers, there are dozens of millions he must account for. Hopefully we see less and less of them both until there is no more.

Then maybe the GOP can get back to business instead of serving ego’s of two overblown hacks.

Romney lost. He lost and all future GOP Presidential candidates will lose until they learn to get off their collective high Horse and get down in the gutter with the Democratic political machine.
The Media has become a permanent arm of the Democratic Party. Accept it and learn that “truth’ means very little anymore when all is filtered by the In-The-Tank Media. So, Solyndra, Fast & furious, The deaths in Libya,the horrific economy and the exposed Bigotry of the POTUS, all mean nothing in a world of Mediated Political Reality. In other words, Orwell’s 1984 is now.

One thing you CAN do – cluster around conservative states with strategic locations, sufficient natural resources, and seize control of the local government, up to the state level. Implement policies to push out the unproductive classes. Hunker down and get ready for the storm.

Something like the Free State Project (which IMO is an abysmal failure), but with a more… militant bent.

You can start by not publicly insulting 47% of Americans. And you might want to think about who’s a parasite: someone getting $2000 a month in welfare checks or someone getting $6000 a month working for a defense contractor. And when I say working, I mean “working:” surfing the web all day.

Only in the fever swamps of the Prog mind is an accomplished engineering working away at difficult problems to advance the defense of this country considered a “Parasite” who is equivalent to someone on welfare.

BTW, I think you project here: they are hardly “Surfing the internet all day”. You would know that if you actually had had a productive, competitive and professional job. I doubt that you will ever hold one, and that is really the point here.

Beyond that, there would not even be an internet if not for the defense industry you so loathe. Wait until America is defenseless. You will be the first to whine. Wait until gas is $20 a gallon and you see your Prog masters drive by from the seat of your bicycle.

What will you do when the 47% of parasites grows to 70%? What happens then? I tell what happened in the USSR: the government came along and told you where to go to school, assigned you a job and told you where to live and where you could travel. If they could find no use for you, or if you where a problem, they either killed you or sent you to the Gulag.

What you are is a little boy who has been had by his prog teachers. They are lying to you. You will not be so smug in a few years.

Two point, Mr Radosh. First, I disagree that Republicans should cave on the illegal immigration issue. Illegals are illegal and bending over backward to enable these folks to gain their ill-gotten rewards is a slap in the face for those who – like my spouse – came here legally and followed the rules. If pandering to the illegal vote is your prescription for Republican victory, I’d rather stick with principle and lose with dignity. Opening our borders is no answer – it simply means this great nation will die even sooner. Illegals by definition don’t care about our laws and certainly don’t respect our culture. In any case, the Democrats have already made themselves the party of the illegal vote. If you want us to throw open our borders, then you are as historically illiterate and as nationally suicidal as they are. Encouraging illegal immigration is a recipe for suicide and we may already be too far upon that road to stop it.

Second, I submit that your recommendations for building a new consensus are incorrect. The Democrats have built a coalition of government parasites. The only way to eat into that coalition is to promise more than the Democrats. That is also a recipe for suicide. I would say that we must make a strong and continuous case on the actual facts of our financial situation and work on persuading the people that this cannot continue. if we fail due to the media and the Democrats’ duplicity, so be it. We cannot win a pandering war with the party of corruption. And if we cannot win this argument on the merits, then it is time to bury the Republic, for it is surely doomed, as de Toqueville foresaw.

Finally, I would say that commenter Samizdat is absolutely correct that nations tend not to endure. And America is more unstable than most. Most nations share some ethnic, racial, or linguistic bonds – bonds this nation completely lacks. We have only an ideal to hold us together. However, the ideal of America has been destroyed by a steady Leftist assault for the past hundred-plus years. They have now succeeded. And based on my own study of history, I would say we will be lucky to survive another hundred years. Look how far we have gone down the road to serfdom in a mere hundred years (the 16th and 17th Amendments, SSI, Medicare, the Great Society and we’re not even mentioning the Fed). And as the Democrats well know, once they push through one of their plans, the Republicans cannot repeal it thanks to their inability to ever get a filibuster-proof majority in the Congress.

The USA are an ethnically fractionned nation, Romney should have teamed with <Marco Rubio and attract more hispanics.The Mourdock statement was very stupid.Besides That Romney was too soft on Obama's foreign policy and the Benghazigate was almost forgotten.Too bad.Next election the GOP should think more out of its tradition and accept the fact that anglo-wasps are a minority.

I didn’t want to believe it either, but this election shows we have reached the tipping point where the takers outnumber the producers. Maybe a small part of the problem is illegal immigrants, but from my vantage point, for every illegal immigrant on welfare there are about 20 American citizens sucking the life out of our economy. This election was the last chance to save the American dream and it is now lost forever. Within the next four years this country will become indistinguishable from Cuba.

I hope everybody enjoys this coming Thanksgiving, it will be America’s last.

Clearly, the Marxists were intent upon chopping our legs out from under us as a hyper-power. They have achieved that. Soros wanted that, the CPUSA wanted that, the now Marxist Democratic Party wanted that, their lapdog media…the Propaganda and Lies Ministry wanted that, Hollywood wanted that, academia wanted that.

They got their wish.

The “Ugly Sucklings” refuse to be weaned from the government teat. Morose “victims” of a fake, phony, faux “oppression” have now grown into a permanent underclass of complainers, takers and have disgraced our place in the world as leaders and vibrant independence.

We are now supplicants to the One World Socialists (OWS, writ large). The black and Hispanic communities leading us to a hip hop homeless shelter.

Gangsta music played for a gangsta government. Lawless, reckless, …the Hippie Hip Hop land of fools. We are now in the stage immediately preceding a Banana Republic. We are in the Hippie Hip Hop…Bandana Republic.

Iowa? Florda? Slipped into ignorance and decided to not just stare at the abyss, they leaped into it.

The Bandana Republic doesn’t need no stinkin’ badges. They are going to ignore the law, ignore our checks and balances. The Supreme Court is in supreme danger. The country is very likely lost, for likely a very long time.

We will watch Europe disintegrate…not as a lesson to avoid, …as an instruction manual. Frankly…we are very likely doomed as a nation. The Cloward-Piven Marxists, the small c communists…and their co-conspiratorial media have “won”. Our options are severely limited.

Tyranny, lies and distortion are on the menu. Treason and traitorism are the main entree. Lawlessness is our dessert.

…more flexible and less dogmatic than the anti-immigration position of many conservatives.

For the love of God, why do you repeat the same old tired pile of crap that the MSM does? It’s not immigration that conservatives don’t want, it’s unchecked illegal immigration. The big problem is that the MSM puts the anti-immigrant idea into people’s heads because when conservative views on the immigration issues are touched on, they never bother point out that it’s illegal immigration that we don’t particularly care for. And you contribute to that mistaken perception when you adopt the same “anti-immigrant” terminology as the hated leftist media does.

Maybe for now, but your total government debt is only around 1/5 of GDP instead of, like the US, about the same size as GDP. And as the world turns obviously cooler over the next twenty years (yes, the “deniers” have the better end of that scientific argument) the Australian left, which has pushed through some very unpopular things in the name of fighting global warming, will become more and more discredited. I see a much better long-term future for Australia than I do for Europe or the US.

Singapore is way too close to China. Who’s going to protect it with US power on the decline?

Let’s face it, Mitt Romney wasn’t some super special candidate who got cheated out of a deserving win. For those of us who can’t stand Obama it was any port in the storm but for everybody else it was just…meh, whatever, Obama’s not great but there’s no reason to believe Romney is going to be all that much better. So they stayed with the guy who’s already in there, enough did anyway. At least that’s what my Democrat friends tell me, they don’t like Obama, don’t like the drone strikes, that he can kill American citizens with no due process, don’t like Gitmo still being open, don’t like much of his agenda at all. But there’s nothing Romney had to offer them on any of that.

Some of it was probably an unwillingness to let go of the last remnants of their 2008 dream and some of it is still a fundamental distrust of the GOP because of the Bush years and a somewhat delusional belief that Obama represents a repudiation of the Bush agenda. That’s going to take more time to wane, at the national level anyway.

Keeping in mind that Romney spent zero time talking about Afghanistan where our soldiers and Marines continue to die on a regular basis, it’s like we’re not actually at war anywhere. And he had nothing to say about Libya either. Or Iran or Syria. We can blame that on the media but Romney had the microphone, especially at the last debate and said nothing. Maybe there’s nothing to say. But if there was, he didn’t say it.

But I think Obama is pretty much irrelevant now anyway. He can’t run again. Other Democrats will now be figuring out how to get the great prize for themselves in 2016 and they aren’t going to want to be dragged down by him. I think what we do now is try and hold the line, fight everything as much as possible and try to maintain the status quo. Which after all is what the people have voted for, the status quo. So let’s help make that a reality. For another 4 years. And see how everybody feels about the status quo then.

What are you going to do when Obama just lawlessly issues decrees? Ignore how he’s not following the constitution, or challenge and lose, and this decree-making becomes part of any future president’s powers. There’s no way impeachment will work because the senate belongs to the wrong party — and a media firestorm is out of the question with the media so far up his wazoo that they taste his food before he does. Obama himself is too feckless and lazy to become a dictator, but those same qualities which make him such a bad president and impossible dictator are sure laying the groundwork for a take-over by the first non-lazy, non-feckless politico who succeeds him.

Strangely enough, at this point I think birthers and those who think like them have the best answer. Get it widely accepted that his digitally released birth certificate has been falsified (that doesn’t, of course, prove he was born outside the US, but it does show what a liar he is), then both Obama is profoundly discredited and so are the media who for so long ignored what was right in front of their eyes. There is good reason to believe that if Obama is ever truly and thoroughly vetted, the results would so discredit him and his media enablers that it will become clear that — had the discreditable facts been known before either of his elections — he would have lost. When that happens, all of his actions (including the toxic increase in presidential power by decree) will lose legitimacy because it will be widely recognized that he never should have held office.

I am going to link to twol stories — I don’t know whether they are true but they seem like a good place to start . Just because this stuff seems really dirty doesn’t mean that there’s nothing there. Remember all the dirt that eventually came out about Kennedy when journalists were no longer willing to cover up his true nature.

The distortions, dishonesty and devious methods of the mainstream media gave this undeserving president a second term. When the exit polls reveal that the majority of voters think that Bush is responsible for the rotten economy and Obama’s foreign policy is acceptable we know we have an electorate which is not simply uninformed, but misinformed. Alas, I see no immediate solution to this problem.

The Obama regime is going to fall of its own weight. It’s just a matter of time. The United States of America as we used to know it is dead. It will never be again. The end is upon us. Teach your children well that once there was a glorious nation, filled with people with glorious dreams, one of which was the American Dream.

Don Mclean’s ablum, American Pie, showing Don’s finger in the foreground with the some red, white and blue stars and stripes painted on his thumb. It was all about Buddy Holly’s tragic death when his plane crashed heading for Morehead, Iowa

Why did Romney lose? Gee, I dunno. Let’s see – the fuc@#ng big R establishment rammed ANOTHER fuc@#ng milquetoast, northeastern, ivy league, RINO down our throats. Way to go establishment. I hope you’re proud of yourselves. You got Obama elected and now re-elected. Our country as we know it will be irrevocably lost four years from now. I knew this would happen. I even predicted it during the primaries. Thanks so much.

The problem with the GOP reaching out to minorities (which is something they must do) is that they’re not fiscal conservatives who just happen to support open borders policy. In other words, they’re not libertarians. Far from it, actually. So even if Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio reach across the aisle and compromise on amnesty supported by conservatives, most of the Latinos will still clash with the center right’s position on pension reform, low taxes, affirmative action, and the like.

The uncomfortable paradox is that for the GOP to come back like they did in 2010, the economy has to continue to stink across all states and demographic. The Obamania deflated by 2010, and it might be even shorter this time. But that’s ultimately wishing harm on yourself and your family. But it will probably happen, because I don’t see the nation flourishing after Sandy, much of Asia locked in protectionist mode (thanks to their nasty land dispute), and Obamacare just around the corner.

What would happen theoretically if another catastrophe hit GM and the auto industry? Do we speak so loudly against bailouts this time, knowing that auto workers in Ohio bailed out by the government voted for Obama? (1 in 8 Ohio jobs are apparently connected to the auto industry) Should we heed pleas from our libertarian friends who caution against high defense spending further adventures in the middle east, even though defense contractor types probably turned that state blue?

As if all that (establishment Pubs ramming anything at all down our throats) really happened. You’re leaving out one little detail: The voters. If you want to blame anyone, blame the voters! One true conservative candidate after another was paraded before the voters over the course of the primary season & Mitt Romney emerged as the victor in practically every case.

It’s time to face a few realities here. We are NOT a center-right country! We, at best, have a number of center-right states but that’s the extent of it! NO true conservative candidate will ever succeed on a national scale. Ever. Our best hope right now is to forge our efforts in states where our numbers are great enough to make a difference.

The Lunatics have finally taken over the asylum. The first election of the Unqualified USURPER could be put down to an aberration a case of national mass hysteria however this second election and the margin of it just confirms my worst fears. Those were that America would finally go the way of Socialist Europe and they have, Proving that the American electorate is now just as moronic as those in Europe have been for decades.

“And, there we were, all in one place – a generation Lost in Space
With no time left to start again
So, come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick – Jack Flash sat on a Candlestick, ’cause…
Fire is the Devil’s only friend
And, as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell could break that satan’s spell
And, as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite, I saw…
Satan laughing with delight the day the nation died”

Another round of advice which will likely assure Joe Biden is sworn in in 2017. Maybe even Michelle Obama. All in all, the “electable” Mitty was just the Meowing Kitty the left clawed to pieces.

Radosh points in the right direction. It’s all about PR. You’d think the GOP would have learned how to play the game after all this time. But they won’t. No hard ball. No demonizing. Even Romney calling for the end of partisan bickering is simply incredibly stupid and shows, why, again, the moderate electable folks are such gracious losers.

It’s time to realize the GOP simply cannot win. They’ve bred winning out of their DNA. They should seriously consider just saying “You’re right. You won. Give us your pland and we’ll rubber stamp it.” That’s about the only way they’ll shift the PR campaign back to the Dems. After all, they’re just like the French Foreign Legion – best known for their defeats.

It’s time for the establishment GOP to rejoice in their defeats.

It’s time for the rest of us to survive as best we can. I think that means shift investments to gold.

The GOP played hardball pretty well against Al Gore and John Kerry even though those were both close calls. Obama is just more personable, crafty and devious than those two losers.
Yes, Bush compromised far too much when elected and also spent too much, although 9/11 was a devastating challenge.
The country and the electorate have changed drastically, having been indoctrinated to be liberals from kindergarten.
Does the US have one more comeback in it? Maybe, if an economic and societal collapse brings people to their senses, but it seems unlikely at this point.
Pray for America.

Before the Founding, Americans went West, ever westward in search of new lands where they might be left alone, to be free to practice the religion as they best saw fit.

Now we are to be regulated, stamped “approved,” or violated – prosecuted – for our beliefs in religion and health” THIS freedom is so fundamental as to be non-negotiable.

It is therefore deeply meaningful that the Tea Party symbol of defeat is a Mormon, Mitt Romney, because the LDS church went West, ever westward in pursuit of the Great American Freedom to just be left the Hell alone. That alternative is no longer open to us, as a free people.

Would you be a slave to the State? Or a free man? Let us take up our new burdens. We are not without company in our past.

That may be the dumbest statement I’ve heard in years. If you think the Tea Party had anything to do with Mittens, you need to pull your head out of your fourth point of contact (look it up if you have to).

Alaska still has a lot of the “leave me alone” advantages of the old frontier — and it’s so cold there that there’s likely to be plenty of work for everyone who wants to live there for a long time to come.

Don’t deceive yourself about Alaska. Alaska has a socialist economy that would have been the envy of the old Soviet Bloc. The NEA owns our school system and if you even think about disciplining a kid you’re going to spend quality time with the nice lesbian social workers. Democrats and unions run all the major towns and the state is trending Purple rather than Red as oil industry influence wanes and tourism becomes more important. The only thing that gives Alaska any of that “leave me alone” thing is that it is so big that government can’t reach everywhere, but wherever government can reach, there is a lot of it. We have managed to keep the State government Republican if not conservative but that is only because at the State level, the unions and greenies have to compete with the oil industry. When I was Alaska’s head of labor relations I felt like I had the Governor General of the East India Company pulling me one way and Saul Alinsky pulling me the other.

Granted the scum on the Left were eager to see Bush assasinated, but the end result would be the Canonization of St. Obama similar to how JFK was treated. JFK was really not that great a president, but for decades he was hallowed until finally reality caught up to his canonization.

You want to spend the next three decades listening to how wonderful and wise and charismatic the great Obama is? Me neither. I want Obama to live a long and healthy life with him realizing he is going to go down in history next to Carter as one of the worst presidents in history.

We need to play hardball indeed. Put up a Real Conservative and purge the country clubbers from our party. That requires more moral fiber.

I am not a liberal, you officious slimewad, and despised those on the left who joked about killing Bush. There is no and never will be any possible justification for advocating the murder of the president. Ever.

I didn’t read one thing about assassinating the President, merely that the Romans often did such to their leaders when they began to fail to reflect the will of the Roman people. Be careful how you accuse people Ben.

I thought America was fooled by Obama in 2008. Some were, but with this election we see that most were not. They like what Obama stands for.

Our country was lost when we ignored the wisdom of our founders and gave the vote to non-land owners. We were never meant to be a democracy. We were meant to be a republic. With that decision America was lost to Plato’s observation. It is not something America can come back from. The brave have died for naught. I hate having to say that.

Plan for a post exceptionalism world where everybody is exceptional and if you don’t believe it they will put you in jail for exercising speech.

it’s time to face the harsh, sordid fact that Obama and his mentor Jeremiah Wright’s hate-filled “God Damn America” is a mindset and a sentiment more widely shared and deeply felt than we could ever have imagined

If your world moves closer to poverty , your roof blows off and your cloths turn to rags and water is foul and your food has worms what will your wife do? Will she blindly follow you to “Egypt” hearing of a Joseph who hears the voice of God? The temptations are too great unless we prepare through repentance those who get peak of what is coming then it will be easy to see the need to unite the three Abraham faiths in Faithfulness to the True God.
yes/no?

1 Corinthians 15

30 And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31 I die every day–I mean that, brothers–just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God–I say this to your shame.

America has lost its ability for problem solving and critical thinking. Romney is as fine a man as we will ever have running for president. Romney didn’t lose, America lost. This situation didn’t happen yesterday, it happened when 18 year olds got the right to vote,(oh I know, if they’re old enough to fight they’re old enough to vote, that’s easy only let those in the military vote) when illegals and felons are allowed to vote without identification. When non-citizens are allowed to receive food stamps, section 8 assistance, free health care, government scholarships, and earned income tax credits. Hey buddy, be smart get all you can get from the man, he has plenty. We are in a parallel universe, good is bad and evil is good.
I also want to thank the 912, tea party and Sarah Palin for staying neutral (can’t be for any political party you know, we’re independent). Romney isn’t pure enough, let Obama win. Gov Christie with his keynote speech about himself and the embrace for Obama was also a willing tool.
In the end our lack of seriousness as a nation will be our doom until there are real consequences for our behavior. If you don’t work you won’t eat may not be that far off in the future.

I’ve read the sentiments, and from what i have gleaned from the serious replies to the over-reactive is that the next four years will plot the course of America’s future. And generally it is seen to be a downward trajectory. We are seeing this through the prism of defeat because a lot emotionally was put into this one. It has been a four year buildup – a lot of capital, energy and as it turns out false hope – and in the end, we wound up right back where we started.
This defeat needs to be seen as the new true fresh start. No more secret muslim stuff, no more birth certificate stuff – these are irrelevancies that took away from the goal; toys for the idle mind. Start at the bottom, find out who the talented conservatives really are, not the ones who pay lip service to the Party for the sake of getting in. And I mean the Christian far right and the Tea Party when I say that last line. These are people with agendas outside the best interests of the Party and cannot be relied upon to act in the Party’s interest.
The Republicans do not have the star power of the left, stop trying to manufacture it. Cultivate the talent there is and get it out at the grass roots to attract people. And for God’s sake stop moping. Have a night, take a deep breath, have the stiff one of your choice (double entendre?) and get ready for tomorrow.
Good night.
PS: There’s always the Libya thing to impeach the president on if things get too horrible. See, sunshine behind the clouds.

What conservatives need to do is top listening to the D.C insiders and Rinos and actually get someone truly conservative next time. We all called this loss back during the primaries. Although I doubt it matters in the long run anyways. America just proved once and for all that dependency is the order of the day, and that socialism has won it’s century long battle to defeat Liberty. Chances are we won’t see a return to Classical Liberal values in our lifetimes as a result of last night.

We will now get to see the accomplishments of a civilization whose chief values are expressed by screaming “racist, sexist, homophobe.”

“the Latino vote”

Homesickness makes one wish one’s adopted land were like one’s home. Patience. The USA will be like Guatemala in a generation.

“as a spoiled man of wealth”

Looks like I should have added “capitalist-roader” and “social fascist” to the “racist, sexist” list.

“conservative intellectuals do not abandon the effort to change the culture”

If reality can’t convince people, a dozen or so intellectuals won’t be able to either. Simply put: communism, feminism, and homosexuality are closer to the truth and to reality than all prior belief systems. Until they fail, no change is possible.

“Conservatives” who continue to reject abortion and contraception, to reject alternative sexualities (not just homosexuality), and freedom are the Julian the Apostates of our time. The Judeo-Christian world is dead, even in its European homeland. The Socialist world is triumphant.

When I look at you America, what I see
Is a country that once belonged to me
And even though that melody plays on, you’re gone
When I look at you, America is standing there
I can almost breathe you in like summer in the air
When I look at you, America is touching me
I would reach for you, but who can hold a memory?
Did I create a dream?
Was America a fantasy?
Even a memory is paradise for all the fools like me
Now, remembering is all that I can do
Because I miss America so, when I look at you

You guys should not be so quick to accept ultimate defeat, or at the very least political purgatory for the next 4 years. I seem to remember 2 lowly reporters at the WaPo., who managed to start a gradually accelerating fire-storm, that brought down an entire administration. The wizard behind the curtain was, and is, the media. The conservative/libertarian voices of reason are being portrayed as religious crackpots, secret racists, or other various Thought Criminals by the dominant power in public relations: The News. The greatest spinners of all (the media) are not elected by anyone, nor are most of the spokespeople for the various special interests which shape much of the public policy in our world. The relatively slow cycle of American governance and electoral politics is sadly gamed in a 24/7 countercycle of Entertainment/news. We must first win the war of “who will tell the story”. So far, one lonely television network and various talk/radio stations,though energetic, have not succeeded in this endeavor. More must be done in this battle of ideas, to consider the framing context , not only the substance of the message, as superficial as this might seem.

The reason we lost is clear. As I posted in another thread last night.

At this point in the evening it’s clear Obama will win. Two huge forces have put him over the top: the mainstream media and the Republican religious-social agenda. Had we stuck to fiscal matters, foreign affairs, and limited government we would have won.

“Had we stuck to fiscal matters, foreign affairs, and limited government we would have won.”

wrong. Obama won there easily because he promises mountains of gold. Most people don’t want limited government (or rather don’t care one way or another), they want welfare checks and other handouts they don’t have to work for.
Those people don’t know or care where the money comes from that buys them their new iPhone or plasma television, as long as the government handouts keep rolling in. And Obama promises to keep them rolling in, Romney promises to reduce them because they can no longer be afforded by the taxpayer (who aren’t the majority of voters).
The Unites States elected President Santa Claus in 2008 and reelected him in 2012. Which is exactly the same as European voters have done with their elections for decades now, with very few exceptions (and most of the exceptions there broke up quickly because those governments didn’t have the broad backing needed in their parliaments to survive the inevitable vote of no confidence over the very first budget cuts they proposed).

The majority of voters couldn’t care less about foreign policy, as long as cheap Chinese imports keep flowing to Walmart where they shop on monday, work on tuesday, picket against “unfair competition for local companies” on wednessday, protest against “cheap Chinese products that destroy US companies” on thursday.

If that story gets you through the day, just keep repeating it. At some point though you need to grow up and realize that the current Republican religious-social agenda (anti-abortion and anti-homosexual) alienates a tremendous number of voters and does nothing but diminish our influence.

What we do is write off DC and stick to the few states we yet have some sway in. We’ll never have the White House again and the Supreme Court is about to become rabidly liberal. The Senate is probably gone and the House is full of Quisling RINOs like Boner who are more in love with their office and power than Conservative principles.

We need to keep Republican control of state houses and Governorships and nullify all we can coming from DC. If DC cuts funding to those states, just kick out the welfare people and privatize the schools. That will take care of most of it. With any luck Conservatives will pour in to make up the shortfall and the influx of productive people will improve state economies.

But that’s wishful thinking. I haven’t had faith in the Republican Party for some time and it is all but dead after McCain and Boner and other RINOs in charge. Most likely we’ll fight a rear guard action against the liberals until Obama really cracks the whip and government openly attacks us. Most likely this will start in a few years when Obama has managed to collapse the economy and health care system and needs scapegoats to blame. Then the axe will fall on business owners, etc. then spread out to all who oppose his brilliance and the media, liberals and Boner will praise his wisdom and righteousness.

Commenters on Hotair are saying that Obama got 10+ million votes less than he did in 2008, which should have sank him big time, but Romney got 3 1/2 less than McCain did. How can Romney have gotten less than McCain? Could it be that a lot of California votes have not been counted yet and/or a lot of absentees?

Overall turnout was down significantly compared to 2008. Methinks that many conservatives AWA Dem voters sat yesterday out. I figured this election was bound to be a contest of turnout, a contest that our side obviously lost.

It is obvious that the move to change the demographics of the country by legal and illegal open borders has been successful.

As for this statement “Christie finally got the call from his hero that he had been yearning for. Gone, I think, are his chances to run for the White House as the Republican candidate four years from now.”

You have to be kidding!? The Liberal Republicans such as John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Orrin Hatch will argue that Christie is the perfect candidate just for that reason

#3 Latinos and immigration are huge problems with an easy solution.
The GOP must stop pandering to nativists. Nativists are natural Democrats anyway.
The want a big Federal top-down bureaucracy to intrude into our family, employment and
business decisions.

To oppose the DREAM Act is unconscionable IMO. That issue and others can’t be finessed.
The GOP needs to champion immigrationn reform that gives the people already here a path
to becoming taxpayers and productive members of society. The anti-immigrant nativists have cost us
Florida, Nevada, Colorado and perhaps Virgina for two cycles! Was it worth it?

Rubio in 2016

What should be done now? Work with the Dems where possible. Investigate the Hell out of Fast & Fuious & Bengazigate.And relax. We lost. ok move on. Obama is not a competent President. He is going to screw up a lot. We’ll be there to point it out. But the GOP mut stop pandering to nativists. Listen to Reagan’s Farewell Address for a quick refresher course on what we once believed.

Oh, say a prayer too, if you are so inclined. Pray Obama does not destroy America.

“There are no ways to get around the facts. For Republicans and conservatives and independents who wanted a new direction for our country, the victory of President Obama is sad — and for many of us, unexpected. Those conservatives who assured us with statistics, theories, and arguments about Romney winning the White House, even in a landslide, should be eating their hats.”

No, who should be eating their hats…and actually they should be shutting their mouths about all things political for the next 8-10 years, are those boobs in the GOP who ceaselessly parroted during the primaries that Romney was “the Electable One”.

Not only did he fail to get elected in the nation, but he failed to get elected BY HIS HOME STATE.

“McGovern Debacle” ring any bells?

So GOP Rockefellerian RINO Great White Hope Presidential Contender #2 goes down to defeat in back to back elections; “outreach” to Blacks, Latinos and Women having availed him exactly bupkis; and yet we are going to hear these same patrons of Loser McCain and Loser Romney exhort the Party to “move to the Center”

A “Move To The Center” is a “Path To Defeat”, but at least it will be well-trodden and familiar.

There are more women voters than men. They voted for Obama because they want the right to kill their unborn babies. End of subject. When I saw the adds showing Romney saying we should end Roe v Wade, I knew we were toast. It really is that simple. It pisses me off to even write these words, but I know I’m right.

Yes, you are right. The sooner the Republican Party learns to leave the social issues alone (this also includes marriage equality), the better off it will be. RvW is here to stay; gay marriages will one day be legal in all fifty states. Get used to it & suck it up, Republicans, if you are serious about being a significant player in the political arena of ideas & policies. Otherwise, count on being the perpetually marginalized party that lurks about in the proverbial wilderness.

Stock market already down about 2.4% and the session is nowhere close to being over. Looks like a straight decline so far, no real pauses or backtracking. Over 2% is huge because the market has been so restrained lately.

Part of this, of course, is distaste for Obama, but a lot of this is a warning sent to DC to fix the fiscal cliff, pronto!

Drop it and let those who have and perform abortions be judged by God. You can’t reason with women, or the guys who want their woman to have an abortion when they knock her up, on this issue. Stand for the religious liberty of employers who don’t wish to fund them and stand for keeping tax dollars from paying for them, but don’t have a-holes like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock as candidates making their idiotic comments about rape and abortions, especially during an election as crucial as this one was. Women would rather live under Pol-Pot then be told by men that they have to keep the baby of their rapist. This crap makes no other issue matter to them and trust me, I hate it as much as you do, but I would let it go to save my country from ruin. and that’s where we are headed, for sure, like totally.

It’s really more about things like jurisprudence and the rule of law. You can’t compromise your principles on these. The minute you accept the permanency of Roe, you accept the permanency of Obamacare and you then accept something worse. It must be a priority — the priority — to change these decisions.

I’m not a conservative, I’m a right winger (believer in limited government), and I’m going to do the same thing I always do. Speak in favior of limited government, vote for limited government and vilify the socialist/totalitarian approach to government.

In my personal life, I’ll stay as far away from government as I possibly can, just like always.

I batter with this: Should we really change our philosophy to court identity groups, albeit very large identity groups? That’s the D’s ballgame; a big part of me thinks we will gain more Hispanic respect if we try to convince rather than cave.

This article has some interesting points, but in my opinion misses some of the main ‘take-aways’.

1) “Nice Guys Finish Last”
Romney, like McCain, Bush, Dole and Bush before him were nice guys. Genuinely likeable. But as moderates, they didn’t want to fight or appear to disagree with their opponent
They lost to scoundrels, accused rapists, probable felon democrats. [The partial exception being W who refused to fight back against his accusers, wrongfully thinking that the public was smart enough to see the lies -- "You will never go broke underestimating the gullibility of the American public"]
Which leads to the necessary conclusion … Republican nominees need to learn how to fight
PJ Media amongst others, told us that Romney was a fighter based on how dirty his campaign was in the primaries. Were were the attacks in the general election?

We need candidates who are not afraid to give their opponent the finger on national television and then not only not apologize for it but do it again

2)You don’t concede … ever
Romney’s legal team should be in every courthouse were there were allegation of voting irregularities today demanding that there be recounts
That precinct in Michigan where a republican election judge was threatened should not be counted.
Ditto all of the areas in Philadelphia where Republican observers were forced out.
Ditto all of the locations were machines magically changed votes
Ditto all of the precincts were people went into vote in the morning only to learn that some had already voted for them

The military vote and the absentees haven’t been counted yet.
Why doesn’t the party charter planes and hand deliver the absentee ballots to the military?

Oh, And have someone put a muzzle on the cry-baby. Respectfully Mr. Boehner, there isn’t a mandate unless you role over and give them one. Your role, and that of your fellow party members in the House and Senate to to give the Democrats nothing and to fight them every step of the way. They want to recess … no, vote against it. Attach amendment after amendment to every bill.

3)Stop apologizing for anything and get your message out
If asked about anything, act offended and go onto the offense
Don’t answer questions, push your talking points. When called on not answering the question, stick to the message

4) Voter Fraud and Intimidation works
If that is what the people want, then that is what we need to do.
Prevent any democratic observer into any American polling place.
Find out who is registered as a D in your precinct and vote early for them. Since asking for ID is Racist, then there shouldn’t be any further call to implement it
Register the grave yard then vote
Suggest that there might be vandalizing of heavily D areas [not carry out, merely suggest that some radical elements, who we obviously can't control, may get out of hand if things don't go their way]

5) Any state whose local party can not deliver the votes in the general election, gets their delegate count cut in half. Any state that has an open primary gets no votes at the convention
Compare the states whose primaries resulted in Romney’s nomination against those that he actually carried. Tell me again why VT, MA, IA, VA, CA etc are picking the Republican nominee?

6) Lying to the public works
Our message should be you want goodies, sure vote for us we’ll get you goodies. Then once in office, don’t delivery and blame your opponents
That is what the minority color and women voters seems to want — empty, undelivered promises

Yeah, I know that some people will say … but, our Principles, we can’t be like those nasty democrats. We are better people.

Maybe we are. But as long as the opponents are breaking the law, trashing the Constitution and the party leaders do nothing effective, then we are left with one of two choices …

You are right to call them the Stupid Party. The Republicans just can’t seem to get the hang of being Conservative and for small government, but they are excellent at stabbing their constituents in the back.

As for Beohner, he’s nothing but a power hungry Quisling. It is impossible to have any respect for the GOP as long as he remains speaker. Not that it is particularly easy to respect them in the first place anymore.

California’s secret is having its primary in June. By then, everybody but the candidate who’s already won enough delegates to sew up the nomination has dropped out of the race. That’s how California is “picking the Republican nominee”.

What’s wrong with Virginia are the northern counties and Hampton Roads. Federal parasites are swarming out of DC into those areas and turning a once Republican state into a Democrat mess. Those morons even elected Kaine, an utter moron who publicly said that his job was to do what Obama told him to do. Trust me, there are plenty of us who would gladly give those counties to Maryland just to be rid of them. They are greedy, needy and willing to plunder the rest of the state to get services they demand but don’t want to pay for. For example: roads and bridges are crumbling around the state but those counties demand the lion’s share of the road budget for new roads to their swanky, farm-devouring estates (paid for with taxpayer dollars). But at the same time they refuse toll roads or locally higher gas taxes. They want to plunder the rest of the state instead.

“And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she’s getting threadbare, and she’s wearing thin,
But she’s in good shape for the shape she’s in.
‘Cause she’s been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more.”

Maybe, just maybe, the next time a bible-thumping idiot–and I do mean IDIOT–makes a public statement about rape or abortion or even boobies, the rest of the GOP will turn on him or her and kick his or her stupid butt right out of the party.

The Dems have brilliantly and effectively (and will again) float the War on Women meme. We don’t need morons from the 1800s in the GOP assisting them. War on Women is now an official GOP stance that the Dems will attach to us from now on. Never mind their RoP stogges in the Middle East are running the real war on women. The women in this countryhave had 50 years of feminist BS pumped into them and are just stupid enough to believe Mitt Romney is the anti-Christ.

Retards who claim God wills raped women to get pregnant are not “on our side,” unless, of course, you’re the Taliban.

So, yes, snowflake, your throw those stupid SOBs under the bus and back over them until the tire treads are full. If the GOP thinks this country’s electorate is going to vote according to performance or experience, then re-read today’s headlines. The GOP has a SERIOUS PR problem and is playing straight into the Dem’s hands whenever it refuses to recognize the idiots within its ranks. That’s the difference between the Dems and the GOP: if you’re a moron in the GOP, people make excuses for you; if you’re a Dem, they make you Vice President.

Ah, so Christians in the Republican party are not wanted? NOW the truth comes out. Well, Zorro, thank you so much for telling us the truth. BTW, come and call me an idiot to my face, and I will happy to explain to you the story of ‘gentle’ Jesus and the moneychangers…PERSONALLY.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Re: Epistle to Timothy:: Your point, I hope, is that we need to take a lesson from the tribulations of the early christian movement, as evinced by Paul’s resolve in his short epistle, to one of his flock of troubled evangelists, who must have been seeking respite and solace from the, usually vicious internecine squabbles over correct doctrine, so enjoyed by the early church. Good example!

I really believe this came down to Obama convincing enough people that George Bush caused the recession. In other words, Obama convinced the country (or enough independents) that TAX CUTS made people not pay their HOME LOANS. I’m interested to see the women tally. Polls had Romney closing the gender gap, but maybe that wasn’t true. Also, Mourdock simply said that a the circumstances of a person’s conception and birth do not devalue that person’s life. It’s not comparable to Akin’s weird, wrong comments. I’m pretty mad at Akin, but Mourdock was trying to honestly deal with tough moral issues.

I would just like to say to all the R party folks here: FU_K YOU ALL!! Now we get four more years of SH_T government because you can’t find a candidate to knock off the worst president in American history. Damn you all to Hell!!

There’s nothing mysterious about the outcome of this election. Obama’s message “I suck, but the other guy’s worse” won out. Obama convinced the electorate, with help from MSM and Bill Clinton (author of the housing crash), that electing Mitt Romney would reverse what pitiful gains were made (real or not) in fixing the economy, and bring us back to September 2008. In 2008 Obama defeated McBush. In 2012 he defeated Mitt Bush.

You have hit upon one of my favorite complaints, that Republicans and conservatives abandoned George W. Bush 43 when the sledding got tough, and allowed the media and the Democrats to set up an unchallengeable myth that the Bush administration was an unqualified disaster and is to blame for the economic woes we now face. It didn’t help any that Bush wouldn’t fight back. The alleged failures of the Bush administration have become the everyday excuse for Obama no matter what the problem and an albatross for Republicans that may take a generation to wear off. But that lie is exposed every day by the similarity of many of Obama’s policies to Bush’s own.

But whether he was right or wrong, our failure to stand up for him is now having direst consequences. The Democrats NEVER admit wrongdoing, and never abandon their constituencies or their politicians, at least not until the final appeal and the jail door slams shut. Thus the housing crisis – what housing crisis? – that is mostly traceable to Democrat policies and officials, has glided beneath the radar while the financial collapse it precipitated is – you guessed it! – Bush’s fault.

Excellent post! Perhaps it’s up to Jeb Bush to set the record straight. If he has presidential aspirations he will have too challenge the myth and shatter it with the truth. He has no other way to the White House.

Jeb Bush has a flaky hispanic wife who among other things has been caught trying to smuggle personal purchases (not drugs) into the country. Jeb used his influence to hush this up. Consequently his career as a politician at the national level is over — his recent comments on this last election, vaguely critical of the Republican party, can be read as an attempt to soften his image in preparation for a move over into the media, like Karl Rove.

“Seven: So what should conservatives do…?” SECEDE! The pussy dems sure as hell won’t fight to save the union–or for any other reason any more! All they care about these days is abortion (the right to promiscuity) and appeasement (the right to roll over and take it up the ass).

You know….this is the hilarious part. The LOSERS of thus pathetic website don’t even realize that they basically now have a Moderate Republican for president. Most of my progressive friends and colleagues did not even vote, and the ones that did, voted for Green Party Jill Stein and other third party alternatives. I am a supporter and participant of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and we were soo divided during this election, many sooo disappointed that Barack Obama did not do enough for progressive causes, and that he tried too much to reach out and compromise with YOU FREAKING IDIOT NAZIS. SO WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA? Cause it was not the TRUE Left. You people are really INSANE. You have a moderate republican in the White House. Be happy.

- For future GOP candidates a basic grounding in human bioethics should be required. How a candidate like Todd Akin can get a Senate nomination without even knowing the basics of human plumbing as taught in an eighth-grade health class is shameful. Anti-abortion is one thing. Anti-abortion and stupid is fatal.

- And how can candidates be so ill-prepared to handle abortion questions after 40 years of Roe? (Looking at YOU, Mourdock) There is a compelling (and non-religious) case to make that whatever the rights of a human fetus may be, they should be equal regardless of circumstances of conception. But that’s not where the candidate’s position ends. That’s where it begins. The rape/incest exception is a pander to people who (understandably) are weirded out by the issue and just want to change the subject. Instead of dodging the issue or schmearing it with gift-from-God bathos, confront it head on and smack it back at liberals: just where the hell do they get off smugly assuming that a life won’t be worth living because of how it came to be? Then you need a plan on how to help the moms and children in any situations where the law would require she carry the child to term. You cannot continue to be painted as the party who only cares about kids until they’re born. You need a plan for that.

- Want way to blow up this war-on-women nonsense? Push for oral contraceptives to be available over the counter. What, are intrusive time-consuming and expensive procedures involving female reproduction evil when the Virginia GOP wants them, but okay when the medical-industrial complex wants them? Can you imagine a guy having to undergo a prostate exam before being allowed to buy condoms? That’s what happens with lots of women – no pelvic exam? The doctor (a good Democrat, oftentimes) says no script, lady. Land sakes, a woman in El Paso can walk over to Juarez and buy oral contraceptives OTC. Yes, Cardinal Dolan will holler blue murder, but remember that JFK wouldn’t have been president without convincing Americans that he wasn’t going to let the Vatican call the shots on issues. Pandering to the devoutly religious now drives away as many as it attracts, if not more. There are plenty of respectful ways to remain as pious as is possible in politics and yet still agree to disagree at times with organized religion and the faithful, while acknowledging their role in life that no government can fulfill.

- You’re going to hammer Chris Christie over his hurricane response because he said nice things about Obama? Seriously? This is the kind of stiff-necked nonsense that kept they party from picking the better of the two Mormon candidates. Huntsman had other faults, but being Obama’s ambassador to China was a deal-breaker for the base right off the bat and that was foolish. (Besides, Huntsman daughters yummy. Hulk like.)

Mr Radosh, With all due respect to your perspective, this country is EFFED!!!
This is NOT a bad strategy by the GOP its the direct results of what we can expect now that the takers FAR outnumber the makers….I’m going Galt!!!

The Republicans lost because conservative social issues were more important to them then conservative fiscal issues. They will continue to wander in the wilderness until they learn the folly of their ways……………

One is to retake academia and the media from the Gramscian socialists who took those institutions over decades ago. This would be a long process, and I see no guarantee of success.

The other, more likely option is to sit back and watch as the US economy collapses as the parasites and moochers of the Democratic Party push their masters to loot more and more from the producers. The problem with this is that there may not be anything left to save once the collapse is complete.

In the meantime, I am going to laugh my azz off at every Obama voter who loses their job, loses their home, or goes bankrupt in the next four years. Sure, I am just as screwed as they are, or more, but at least I did not vote for economic and national suicide.

Republicans need to re-engineer their economic principles to fit the modern world. Republicans need to realize three essential facts: (1) BUSINESS is not an unalloyed good. BIG BUSINESS is not in favor of economic opportunity, competition, innovation, or building wealth in a community. BIG BUSINESSES favor protection of their own place in the market and in earning big bonuses for their managers. A BIG BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE agenda is not an agenda designed to create economic opportunity and growth in our communities. Republicans need to craft pro-growth economic policies with an understanding that BIG BUSINESS is actually not their ally. Small business is the Republican friend and the small business growth agenda is not the big business growth agenda; (2) FREE TRADE HAS FAILED — all economic policy ventures will fail so long as large corporations outsource jobs. Until Wal-Mart stops stocking goods made in China, Mexico, etc. the economy will move no where; (3) Wall Street is not main street. Wall Street makes money for itself by moving money around. Main street makes money the old fashioned way, by making things. The basic economic truths have not changed. You make wealth by growing things, mining, milling, refining, and manufacturing. You generate cash profit in banking. You create wealth with manufacturing.

It’s very simple. The dems use psychologists as their guide dogs to the political promised land. They asked these people how to get from here to yonder and they told them how to do it.

There was a point about a year and half ago when the political adults in the dem party realized that O being O, as in his “alligators in moats” and “bring a gun to a knife fight” and “our enemies” comments, was not going down too well. So, they brought in the professional people manipulators and they came up with things like the Fluke affair, the war on women, Occupy, and myriad others. And all of it worked because, as the manipulators well know, the mind of your average (and on down) intelligence type can be reshaped as easily as clay.

HEY RADOSH: you are deluding yourself, and us. All I saw in the last month were polls that had Romney up in the popular vote (51-47 by Rassmussen and 52-46 by Gallup just 10 DAYS AGO). Ohio was “even”. Romney had a slight “lead” in New Hampshire. Florida was in the “bag” for Romney. They were delusional, just like you and every other conservative pundit is delusional. You want to know why Romney lost? Because of people like my friend Mike, a white, hardworking CPA who refused to vote for Romney because Romney is, according to him, “an old rich white dude.” Or how about my friend Ed, who is a 55 year old white guy who is an unemployed former contractor, on disability (for what, I don’t know) who sits around all day, smoking pot, and posting negative photos of Romney on Facebook. Or how about my friend Walter, who is a very wealthy white attorney who happens to be an atheist and hates Romney because he believes in a “phony god.”

HERE’S WHY WE LOST….AN LET THIS SINK IN: HALF, THAT’S HALF, of the country is too stupid, lazy and selfish to even care to think about the good of the country, no less themselves. And democrats feed the stupid and lazy, And of that half, too many reside in crapholes like Ohio. Your points are well taken, but there’s no reasoning with lazy and stupid. The electorate has changed alright. We’re more French than anything else.

The Gallup Polling in 2012 reminds me of the telephone polling from the 1936 presidential election that had Alf Landon beating FDR. Remember, Democrats are more likely to be in arrears (some intentionally, as in “walking away” from mortgages) and fear that any unfamiliar telephone number on their caller ID is that of a creditor.

We failed because we could not muster the courage to obliterate obama by exposing his true history which would have exposed his true agenda. That is, too destroy America in the only way possible, as President Lincoln wrote, from within. By destroying our economy. By growing the dependency class beyond our ability to sustain it. By deflating our military. And, most of all, by separating each of us, from our innate ability to care for ourselves.

Even in liberal Tel Aviv, there is a chill in the air. Never mind what our cowardly media and cowardly politicians say, and the idiot far Left; there is a terrible foreboding, and we don’t need no crystal balls…

All I can say at the end of the day is, to repeat a few lines from a twenty year old Lenny Cohen song:

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall
I’ve heard their stories, heard them all
but love’s the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It’s over, it ain’t going any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil’s riding crop
Get ready for the future
it is murder

Eerie song but appropriate. I do worry about Israel what with the “Arab Spring” all around it. There is no way that will end well. And with Obama in office the US is likely to fight on their side against Israel. Any US soldier who goes on that mission deserves whatever evil befalls them.

Romney lost the election in the last debate. I had a sinking feeling in the first few minutes. He had Obama on the ropes, teed up to expose him for the corrupt liar that his is, and didn’t do it. Romney sat on a lead and played not to lose. In politics and often in football when you play not to lose you lose. All it took was a lucky event like the hurricane to blunt his momentum.

And Christie can probably kiss goodby any chance of ever becoming president.

The only consolation I have is that it will go down in history that it was demonrats that destroyed the finest country – with the highest quality of life for the common man – that EVER existed. From Woodrow Wilson to Baracus Obammunist, it is demonrats that have succeeded in dividing and destroying this Republic.

By the way, I’m done. I’ll post for a few more days, but then I’m unplugging and going underground. I don’t care anymore. God’s Will be done – and WE are DONE!

Given the low level of literacy in America today and our propensity for recording things digitally make it entirely possible it won’t be. In a major collapse, all those cute electronic toys will be junk, though a virus, EMP, or change in software language could also render it all useless. Aside from that it would only take a generation of barbarity to make the written word as arcane as hieroglyphics, rendering books a mystery only good for kindling.

Expecting conservatives to change the culture seems rather like expecting a fish to breath while out of the water and live. Once again an election proved the propensity of people to want something for nothing while peeing in the same pool they swim in. I wonder when the bond market is going to puke?

Republicans lost the Senate with the two candidates who made outrageous statements that Romney simply dealt with by saying he did not agree;

And that is why we lose. Because people like you, Radosh, cannot come to the defense of those with whom you agree on 90 percent of the issues when orchestrated plans to set them up cause them to misspeak. How many ignorant and stupid statements were made by Obama and Biden? Why were “conservative” “intellectuals” more willing to criticize Akins’ single comment than the government loot McCaskill’s husband was raking in.

That’s exactly it. These so-called conservatives are more than willing to do this. They note that Obama throws people under the bus when they’re no longer useful? Heck, Obama learned that from them! Make the perfect the enemy of the good – that’s a winning strategy!

And, as for working to change culture? Yah, good luck with that. Hey, did you see the PJMedia positive review of a leftist actor-turned-director? How we must all go out and put more money into this leftist’s pockets and go see this so-called wonderful film of his? (http://pjmedia.com/blog/poliwood-argo/) Let’s talk about changing cultural values, then give more money to people who are working to change that same culture against us!

So what I think what Ron Radosh is saying in this article is to LIE LIE LIE. Don’t tell anyone what you are going to do when you get into office, just tell them what they want to hear. And if you cannot figure out what they want to hear, dodge the question by answering in some political jargon that will make them think that you answered the question.

That reason alone is why we end up with President Obama, and not someone who is truthful from the start.

Before anyone says “at least we have the House of Representatives”, ask yourself if you really expect John Boehner and the rest of the beltway GOP to stand athwart Obama’s path, and court his “revenge”.

Nope, I fear the House GOP leadership, if not all of the rank and file, will indeed “pop like a blister” before Obama and the looters.

I think we lost when Rick Perry was destroyed. Hispanics vote too. Just like whites have death with enough black thugs to be suspicious of black ‘youths’ in hoodies, Hispanics have dealt with enough racists to be suspicious of Republicans.

Which is a shame. All of the people hooting derision about conservative Mexican families are speaking from ignorance. no one is more tightly laced than a real Mexican mom.

But no. Death before dishonour. and my stock portfolio will pay the price i am sure.

Oh screw the mexican mom! From what I’ve seen first hand they are illegal and they are unmarried whores because they get more gimmes if they are unmarried mothers. Standing in (and holding up) lines in the grocery stores because they have chosen the red rather than the blue labled cheese.

Reading the bizarre comments here, it seems you have an unfortunate penchant for ending up in the midst of ideological, angry cranks who hate the America that actually exists. Good luck with that after all of these years. The more things “change” for characters like you and Horowitz, the more they’ve stayed the same.

First, women may have been frightened, little did they realize they’ll now have to fend of the government.
Second, we haven’t imagined the hurricane this Progressive government will become.
Third, the latino vote is a result of a poor educational system. More latinos, less education. Get used to it.
Fourth, Republicans will need to embrace Libertarianism to exist.
Five, Romney is not, never was, Santa Clause.
Six… who needs Congress. Obama has already exhibited an ability to be Prez… to hell with the little people.

Dems have made politics about race and identity, successfully. That’s how they won. But stereotypes don’t come from nowhere and the failure that is the Third World is not someone’s imagination. That Third World has been coming here in massive numbers and continues to do so. The more successful Dems are at winning elections, the more failure will be institutionalized in America. There won’t be any more “Greatest Generations.” There’ll just be racial maneuvering and more finger pointing about why failure is not more successful.

I don’t have the answer to why failure is not successful. I don’t know why Bolivia is like Bolivia, Egypt like Egypt, Indonesia like Indonesia and Mexico like Mexico. I DO know that nothing has stopped Latin America from showing us something these last 400 years, nothing at all. Importing them wholesale is a fools game, because, on arrival, they are picked up by the Dem Party, pandered to by race, told everyone else in a racist and the reason they are failures and set in rows.

I agree. When one is more concerned with being called a racist than with cultural survival and success, it’s over. Only the West does this because they are over-refined and decadent; so far from Mother Nature that too much common sense has simply fled the West. The West is an airport at the service of diversity, multiculturalism and the Third World. We no longer believe our own eyes or history at what we have accomplished. We think any one can do it. If that were true they would have – they have not.

The Dems have successful sold the narrative that the Third World and minorities have not because of white racism, imperialism and colonialism. It will be stipulated those effects will last as long as success eludes our new partners. Therefore that narrative will last forever. You cannot change water to sand.

For the past several elections, starting with Bush the elder, I’ve held my nose and consistently voted against the Democrats and for someone I personally did not care for. I’m done doing that, I’ve resigned from the Republican party. The two party system has created a world where tyranny comes in two distinct flavors: Social tyranny from the Republicans and economic tyranny from the Democrats. Both parties are 100% invested in their own vision of big government and totally focused on remaining in power.

From now on, I’m supporting the candidates who are committed to the constitution and liberty. If they happen to be Libertarians, so be it. If that means that I’m “throwing away” my vote, then too bad. Where else does a fiscal conservative, and social liberal who believes strongly in the constitution go?

A great deal of what’s wrong with this country is due to the strangulation of the two party system giving us a choice only between bad and worse.

So the top two reasons that Obama won, according to this author, is basically media bias. It’s not the person but “how well they are represented”. A lot of people are still licking their wounds from the the 2008 crash and the challenger’s elixir of dropping taxes for the most wealthy while increasing spending on the military is not the salve the public were looking for. But no, according to this article, the public was merely brainwashed by the slick presentation of Obama. Forming your own palatable reality just like the landslide-predicting pundits listed at the beginning of this article will do little to help Republicans win the next election.

The fundamental political/economic problem we face is that the public wants more government benefits than it is willing to pay for. Obama’s plan to tax the wealthy by a little bit more will make no dent in the deficit and was a cynical and successful ploy to define Republicans as the tools of the super-rich.

There is no way for the US out of its debt problems without both painful spending cuts and increased taxation. Make no mistake, the extraordinary spending spree of the past four years was paid for by massive transfer of wealth from savers (particularly from older people on fixed incomes)through artificially reduced interest rates, to pay for unemployment insurance and food stamps as well as continuing to keep states from being bankrupted by outlandish pensions for public employees.

It is also financed by the cost of many commonly used products imported from poor countries that can produce them cheaply due to far lower labor costs. But this will reach a tipping point where the dollar will collapse and we will face massive inflation and a greatly deteriorated economic infrastructure. This will be aggravated by the unfortunate influence of global warming extremism that will wreak havoc on our domestic energy industry and cause the price of all forms of energy to be driven through the roof by regulatory strangulation and misguided views of climate science.

The demographic problems for the Republicans are real. But they can’t be solved by pandering to the most selfish instincts. There is a conservative message of individual responsibility and self-reliance that can resonate with a lot of people including minorities. The liberal solution of make-believe affirmative action programs is not very successful. Colleges can remove standardized testing from its application procedure but that will not remove the education gap that is revealed by such testing. It is only when minorities begin to reach something reasonably close to parity in educational achievement that the arguments of conservatives will resonate with them in significant ways.

Ouch Ron,
If nothing else could communicate the terrible sadness of the place you have come to, then maybe just a slow, contemplative reading of the commenters here, allowing you to see the audience you are attracting with your conservative writings will do the trick.
read the stuff here! don’t skip over lightly the name-calling and the rest. This is where you have landed yourself. yes it is. face it.
sad.

Did it ever occur to you that European migration of educated, rich/semi-rich or middle class people, who has always been used to -and happy with, welfare states from cradle to grave, with plenty of degrees and phDs titles, is actually worse than poor but honest, hard working latinos who never actually trusted the failed siren songs of free meals in their original countries? (Seriously. Maybe Mexican people are an exception, since they are just on the other side of the border so they are not exactly “migrants that want to integrate”. See V.D.Hanson for better understanding,).

I don’t blame it on the poor immigrants, they might be desperate enough to accept charity without actually selling their souls. I’m more inclined to blame richer childish educated Europeans who enabled the system to begin with, and gave it the aura of righteousness.

After all, “welfare state”, “social contract”, “socialism” are european inventions; not Mayan or Inca, or Aztecs. I’m not defending here Mayas, Incas or Aztecs; but when they robbed you they just robbed you. Socialist people robs you all while proclaiming moral superiority and requiring your own sanction.

Note though that Boehner — the Republican Speaker of the House — is third in line for the presidency. The real problem, though, is not Obama and Biden but rather all the people who voted for them, and you can’t make all them go away. A more practical solution is emigration or separation from the parent country (separation, of course, being the option chosen by George Washington and the other US founding fathers). See above comment along similar lines.

Radosh poses a rhetorical question: “So what should conservatives do, now that the nation has elected Barack Obama to a second term?”

He then announces his solution: “[T]he intellectual fight against [Cultural Marxism's] assertions must begin with all the strength we can muster.”

This prompts me to ask a rhetorical question or two of my own: Can this fight succeed if we defend just one element (i.e., Western culture or free-market capitalism)?

If we answer this question in the negative, then the first order of business is to form a renewed alliance between fiscal and cultural conservatives. If this cannot be achieved, we will continue to lose at an accelerated pace.

This cultural/economic formula was successful for Reagan and it still offers promise. Understand that “conservative” cannot include defense of the Welfare State, or we lock ourselves into a bidding war as to who can deplete the Federal Treasury fastest.

Can a libertarian, fiscal conservative/social liberal model be substituted as skeet shooter suggests? No. There will be no libertarian successes until the Welfare State is first smashed. Open borders invite proletarian socialists to form an alliance with the Cultural Marxists.

1. Become more economically populist. (Buchanan, Huckabee)
2. Become more moderate on social issues
3. Acquiese to the wishes of Hispanic voters (and the Chamber of Commerce and the Wall Street Journal editorial page) on immigration issues.

Might be able to exclude one of them, I think need to pick at least two. If Republicans had done #3 in this cycle, you would have won Florida and Nevada, not enough to change the outcome. If you had done some combination of #1 and #2, could have won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, maybe even another Midwestern state.

If you make it a cultural war, you lose. It you forge an alliance between social cons and fiscal cons, you lose.

Make it an alliance promoting individual freedom and liberty, and truly and fully embrace constitutional constructivism (The Founders said what they meant, and meant what they said) you win.

When you inject social conservatism into politics, you end up with a war on drugs (how’s that workin’ out for ya?) and then complain about how many people are in prisons around the nation. You end up with a war on lifestyles that you don’t, personally like or approve of. iow, you shooes how – and where – others will live, talk and dress. You end up with a foreign policy that embraces and promotes the invasion of other nations, for their own good and because it’s the right thing to do, you understand. …then, you wonder why so many other nations hate and fear us and our so-called ‘freedom.’ You then, also, wonder why so-called libertarians, and no few independents, refuse to support or join your party. You alienate half of America and… wonder why you keep losing the big elections and the big policy decisions.

Fiscal cons are just as bad, in their own way. They seek ways to balance the budget…but seldom discuss the details…or even discuss where to slash the budget to sustainable levels. When you start slashing the budget, many, if not most of your favorite government programs go the way of the dinosaur, including the 501(c)3 status for your local churches. You don’t discuss that. You want to take it all out of the other guy’s pocketbook while maintaining government cash flow for your own projects and liberty-reducing, big government policies.

You want individual freedom and liberty? A return to The Constitution? Smaller government? Then embrace The Constitution. Fully, in all of its aspects, and not just the parts that you like. They said what they meant and meant what they said…or else it’s just another god-damned piece of paper.

Freedom and liberty were never meant to be squandered Warren. When anything is allowed in the name of freedom, you get what we have now. The war on drugs needs to be more vigorously persecuted. We don’t WANT drugs in our society. They tend only toward moral evil. Likewise with homosexuality. Likewise with aborticide which stems from fornication. Yes to the Constitution. No to using it as a framework to allow evil.

That’s your problem with winning the big elections and the big policy issues. You, like your opponents, want to define what is evil. They often do a better job selling that particular message, which is why you keep losing on the big issues.

If, however, the behavior of others doesn’t pick your pocket or break your leg (see Thomas Jefferson), it is no harm to you or to anyone else. remember: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s not just for social cons. It’s for every American, whether you like what they do, or not. Constitutionally, from a constructivist pov, the government can’t make those decisions for us…and neither can you

#87 Larry in Tel Aviv – Larry most Americans stand with Israel and the Jewish people! Never, ever forget that! ISRAEL is VERY SPECIAL to God and Americans!
WE LOVE ISRAEL!

We are all sick of WEAK appeasers and deceivers. We urgently need STRONG, powerful, FREEDOM-LOVING leaders!

Israel is on the frontlines of global jihad. Anyone who seeks to give infidel-hater Muslim barbarians one inch of Free World Jewish land is a huge TRAITOR not just to Israel and Jews, but to EVERY non-Muslim on earth!

Many millions of Muslims have been imported into our countries by our treasonous leaders in order for Muslims to OBEY the Quran commands to wage jihad against non-Muslims and conquer our countries.

Non-Muslims of the world unite! We must not go quietly into the night!
NO Islamic conquest of our nations!
NO SURRENDER, EVER!

Join the European Freedom Parties. Join the European Defence Leagues!
Join EDL (English Defence League)
Join British Freedom. Britain’s last great hope! http://www.britishfreedom.org

What ‘conservatives’ must do is to STOP WITH THE NANNY STATE already. Keep the hell out of my life. I don’t need YOU to try to ram your BS morality down my throat.

And I say this as a real (Eisenhower) conservative. And not one of these tin-pot Stalinists that think the State needs to be butting into everything I or my wife or my children do while clutching their pearls.

My life is none of your business. My bedroom is none of your business. My educational choices are none of your business.

And yet, here you are, day-after-day, with your phony morality and sanctimony preaching at me and telling me how to live my life when you’re out there acting like immoral fools.

You asked for a list; you got it. That response’s called entering a dialogue. Next you simply said “not true” to every item on the list. That ends dialogue.
And Congress at the time of the “Green Revolution” was solidly Democrat. Later the President had no trouble calling up military assistance to Libya without Congress, though by then it was divided between parties, even though nothing happening in Libya was any threat to us, any longer.
Do you really think Israel commits more human rights violations than it’s neighbors? Are you really following events in the Middle East? Or are you just covering your prejudice with the latest mask?
If a church-affiliated hospital treats someone on Medicaid or Medicare (mandated to be the first payer) then they do accept federal dollars, yes. The alternative is not to treat anyone who depends on Medicaid/Medicare. Or to treat them all for free (so church-affiliated hospitals have to treat people for free whom other religiously affiliated hospitals/secular hospitals can be paid for? did you skip “free exercise thereof” part of the freedom of (not from) religion thing?)
Lord, I wish y’all would actually think a thing through instead of sloganeering!
That said, Republicans are just as bad or worse! Look at the map of election results! You lost in the cities!!! Who lives in the cities these days? The poor (whom you abused verbally), government functionaries of various kinds (whose jobs you threatened), and employees of big corporations (both the top level people–whom you as well as your opposition considered your friends–and the people with minimum-wage jobs).
Are you mad? Who would a big corporation prefer to run the country, an academic who hadn’t a clue how they work–or a man who knew enough about how they work to actually interfere with the status quo (which is great for them, they’ve got things all bolstered up so they really never lose anything, now). You’ll lose those poor minority and woman conservatives who started to think they could raise their heads up, too. You fools are just doubling down on the tactics that lost you this election.

The american people just had a teaparty with your teaparty candidates. The teaparty did it to themselves with their out-of-touch, stark raving mad ideology. It takes more than voting simple party lines to elect anyone in our current system, that means that even conservatives were tossing these loonies overboard. I say good riddance to bad tea!

We have three choices ahead of us beginning with the most likely but least effective and ending with the least likely but permanent fix to our loss. Unfortunately, I fear we’ll choose number one.

1. Business as usual. The coalition of the South and the Republican Party served us well these past 45 years, or so. But times change and this strategy has left the Republicans open to its innate inconsistencies and a muddled vision.

2. Become the party of true freedom.

A. Drop the antiabortion-at-any-stage platform. It leaves us wide open–and rightfully so–to accusations of social engineering. Anytime a liberal goes to justify his overreach into our lives, he can always say that, “well, the conservatives want to end abortion at any time regardless of what the mother wants. That sounds like control to me.” And they’d be right.

That is not to say that conservatives have to accept abortion at any time, just to go with moderation. Allow abortion for the first two to three months of pregnancy. But make it illegal thereafter. Americans are not willing to accept the religious views of the minority that all life begins at conception. And I agree. It breaks the covenant of church-state separation. But after that, what a powerful message we could send to the electorate:

“Look, people (holding up a picture of a fetus at three months sucking its thumb), instinctively we know that you do not feed cows their own bones and you don’t allow the aborting of this. How do we know this? Because it gives us the creeps. Plain and simple. The left is so wedded to their extreme ideology, they don’t even have the compassion to protect an unborn child at this advanced stage of development. Most of us even feel a pang of remorse when an animal dies with its unborn offspring. My God, if we can’t agree to this, heaven help us.”

With that, we could literally crucify the left.

B. Decriminalize pot. I know I’ll catch a lot of flack for this, but that stance alone will gain us a huge number of supporters. Even if they don’t agree with us and if it never becomes law, it will clearly define us as the party of free choice and self-responsibility. It is a statement that the government does not have the right to make personal choices for us.

True consistency would entail the abolishment of the vice department all together: prostitution, drugs, gambling. Its not to advocate any of these things, its just that government does NOT have the right to coerce us to do things we wouldn’t even let our own mothers tell us what to do. But I know going this far right now is probably too much to ask for. So, for now anyways–and as a statement, if nothing else–advocate the legalization of pot. Even the majority of conservative justices on the supreme court “get it” and–in the Raich case–have already endorsed it. Once again, they don’t advocate it; they just don’t believe it is the right of the government to make that decision.

So we abide by the constitution, maintain the division of church and state and maximize personal liberty. From here on out, we are able to truthfully and with consistency portray the opposition as “control freaks” and the party of the staid establishment. For the younger people, we turn things on their head and show the Democrats to be “their parent’s party.”

(As an aside, I–like probably most of us–recoiled at the Republican Party being characterized as the “Red” party. The Red party should be the revolutionaries. Then I started rethinking this. Today the conservatives are the revolutionaries. Fate has dealt us a new, more dynamic and excitingly hip new narrative–unwittingly by the left-wing media’s decision to camouflage liberals by renaming them “progressives” and doing away with the politically in-expeditious red moniker. This is our chance to bring in a new generation of young people, who–like all young people–want nothing more than to exercise their newly gained right to make decisions on their own.)

By doing these things, we will probably not lose the Southern vote. Too many of their values coincide with Republican values. It will probably make them far less enthusiastic to vote Republican–and, inso doing–we will lose some votes there. However, how many people are out there who say, “I want the government out of my pocket and out of the bedroom.” Studies say this best fits the great majority’s views. This should be our motto. It is consistent, clearly paints the left as the party of control, brings together the most people under the largest tent, and gives the Republican Party a more sound future with a far larger portion of the younger generation.

3. Amicably divide the country: the true permanent solution to our problem. This doesn’t have to be through violence in any way. The Soviet Union broke up peaceably, Czechoslovakia did so by vote alone as have many other independence movements proceeded in Europe over the past few decades.

Why do something so extreme? Its simple. We do NOT have control of the media or the schools. Nor do we have any chance whatsoever of bringing any kind of balance back. You can’t go anywhere on television or movie theaters anymore without a constant and insidious subtext–overt or otherwise–that paints the following: men, white people in general, and business are inherently evil and that if you don’t buy the ecology line in all its hyperbolic hysteria you are an earth-hating psychopath.

The propaganda generated by this monolith is un-defeatable. Forget about wringing our hands about the unfairness of it all. We as conservatives see things as they are and not how they should be. Why do we delude ourselves on this one point? Maybe our love of country makes us blind to it. But this love is for a country that no longer exists. One founded on the principles of The Enlightenment, logic, reason, and an unwavering optimism in man and his capacity to rule himself.

Over time and after countless arguments with liberal friends and acquaintances I have come to the following conclusion: Liberals do not think like conservatives. Maybe it has to do with upbringing, but I doubt it. I think the reason is innate. At one point some people developed the capacity for objectivity. It proved successful and allowed enough very smart people to bring about The Enlightenment in Europe. Those who really understood it came to America and made it flourish. Up until now, we have been blessed with this advantage that brought us greatness in the past.

But now, with immigration of those who have no background in The Enlightenment–quite possibly because, in their societies, those with the capacity to understand it never became sufficient in number to break with the past–and the ceaseless propaganda of a media that has no more mental sophistication than those yelling, “Burn witch! Burn!” 300 years ago, we are at last to succumb to the rabble that ruled us so long ago. They have neither the appreciation for nor the capacity to “get it.”

The Enlightenment and its natural offspring, democracy, only work when enough of those capable of understanding outnumber those who don’t. That is clearly no longer the case. The demographics confirm it. We are on our way out. But the left has, unwittingly, given us a unique opportunity to get rid of the deadwood and troglodytes that now rule and move to a new world without these encumbrances. And how do we do it? In a way, we agree with them. If white people–and conservatives, in particular–are so fundamentally flawed: we are racist, warlike, money-grubbing devils that should be quarantined from the rest of civilization, then obviously we hold down minorities and keep them from realizing their full potential. How could they possibly want us around? We free ourselves by freeing them from us. We “quarantine” ourselves in the SE where social conservatives can live according to how they see fit, and in the NW where libertarian conservatives can be free to pursue their own happiness.

We are the most itinerate society in the world. Let’s take that to its natural conclusion and agree to divide the country along idealogical lines. Minorities who understand would, of course, be more than welcome to create a new country with conservatives. Fact is, the productive ones who believe what their parents were once taught that hard work and strong values are primary in creating success could be nothing other than an asset. But the world they will be entering will be truely color-blind.

Why fight the inevitable downfall of America? It has served its purpose and, like George Washington, maybe its greatest gift will be stepping down to allow new, better things to sprout from its fertile ground. Our founding fathers gave us the gift of reason, objectivity, The Enlightenment, and a belief in the individual’s God-given rights. We’ve had over two hundred years to sort out those people who are probably genetically predisposed to “get it.” The others in all likelihood never will really understand what sets us apart.

This is our great opportunity. Let’s use it to get out, drop the deadwood and start fresh. And even if it never comes to pass, I also know that the very threat of dividing the county will most likely end in concessions to hold it together. Though it is hard to write a list of the minimal requirements that would have any chance of being agreed to. And others, like demanding that Hollywood stop writing anti-American, anti-western civilization, anti-male scripts, go against my own cherished belief in freedom of speech. This is where things plainly become irreconcilable.

Do we really want to futilely continuing to hope that one day they will all come to their senses when they simply can’t while the world collapses around us? Its time we stop complaining and do what conservatives do. We don’t whine; we solve problems and then get on with it.

With Europe no longer capable of championing it and America’s inexorable new future, dividing this country is–with all its advancements in thought and humanism–western civilization’s last chance.

Sorry. You are dealing with people who are both highly missionary in mindset, utterly intolerant of differing opinions, and convinced that they’ve cornered the market on righteousness. It’s not enough for them to believe in their gods, and live by their Commandments- you have to do it, too.

Either that, or you don’t get to live. And even if you do “convert”, at some point you’re liable to be “sacrificed” in the name of one or more of their deities. “Holy Mother Gaia”, most likely. (“There are too many humans on Earth, but I am valuable and you are not. Sorry.”)

Study the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. The outnumbered Spanish were helped along by all the other tribes who lived under Aztec domination, because they were simply fed up with supplying maize and sacrifices and getting nothing in return except demands for more of the same.

When dealing with mystics, be aware that their delusions can be lethal, and their fanaticism even more so.

You are not a Republican; you are a Whig. Goodbye and good riddance. It is better to live under tyrants than to assent to the claim that it is ever permissible to be pro-choice on abortion any more than it is permissible to be pro-choice on slavery.

“In the past week, conservatives who usually disagree with each other about many things, including Fred Barnes, Peggy Noonan, Dick Morris, my PJM colleague Roger Kimball, George F. Will, Karl Rove, and Michael Barone, among others, provided analysis and arguments, all of which led to predictions of an inevitable Romney victory.”

Must, but not all of which are semi-leftist wimps. Why are so many non-leftists consulting with these wimps who refuse to promote positive, non-leftist candidates? Why are there so many back-pedallers, apologists for everything that’s good?

Where are the forth-right, instransigent backers of getting government out of our lives and our wallets? People with integrity? People for whom we can be enthusiastic? Oh, that’s right, they were attacked by several of the above-mentioned pundits and the leftist media in the first rounds.

When Obummer gives out unconstitutional de facto amnesties to illegal aliens, Mittens talks about creating more legal paths or some such. When Obummer talks about more cheap, young, pliant foreign STEM labor with flexible ethics, Mittens rushed to say, “Me, tooo!” (and Obummer’s backers are still mindlessly chanting “Bain, out-sourcing, off-shoring” after the technical argument about when what took place was settled clearing Mittens of involvement in their poster cases).

OTOH, I can hear Limbaugh saying that Obummer got fewer votes than in 2008. (That’s totally contrary to what I saw in my politically, economically, racially mixed precinct, yesterday).

You want enthusiasm? Line up co-sponsors for the Liberty Amendment. Float bills to put a moratorium on guest-work visas. Float bills to mandate construction of those other 8,000 miles of border fence and deploy the regular army along them. At least write them and put them in the hopper even if you know they’re going to be tabled, FCOL! Float bills to cut funding of CPB, NPR, national endowments for arts and humanities… Really. Don’t just mention the possibility, and then quail back when the usual leftist extremists try to poke at you. Get serious!

You made your bed, now you will lie in it. When enough Americans “go Galt” and you can no longer get the wealth you want to extort from your fellow Americans, what will happen next? Will you become productive and create the necessary wealth?

I woke up depressed this morning, not because Obama won, but rather that America died. This is the country that the majority of people want and they shall have it. Will they learn as it continues to rot? Doubtful, with a Republican majority in the House that will undoubtedly attempt to obstruct further decay, the Democrats will see them as the problem when, in fact, there is nothing to be done. The seeds of destruction have already been sewn and we’re done.

I have many ideas of how to resuscitate it but I am 70 and don’t have the time or energy to fight anymore. Actually, we should have been fighting for our country long ago. We should have stopped teachers from preaching their ideology. We should have put an end to all of those social engineering programs for children that only develop a sense of servility. Now, all these young adults want is someone to to take responsibility for them, make decisions for them, insure their comfort and success.

Yes, the liberals and progressives are celebrating like passengers dancing on the deck of the Titanic. Me? I’m edging towards the lifeboats.

The ultimate problem with this election was you guys picked the wrong candidate. I agree with Mr. Radosh: Every fault he described in Romney was (a) obvious from the beginning, (b) ignored by the Republican base in the primaries, (c) and exploited by the Democrats.

If you guys had nominated Santorum, or perhaps even Perry, you might have won this election.

GOP allowed attacks on out-dated parts of the platform. Time to REMOVE every suggestion that supports attacks or limits on women’s rights and women’s reproductive freedom–regardless of cause of pregnancy. Also REMOVE the war monger attitude. STOP MCCAIN from mouthing off about American “need” to interfere in every squabble on the planet. We are so war weary and broke.

In my opinion, Romney’s failure to achieve the numbers achieved by McCain-Palin suggests another factor that all the enlightened libertarians and conservatives, like commentor 107, might want to consider. Conservative Christians may not have turned out for Morman Romney.

Romney (according to Drudge at the moment) 57,304,430; McCain 57,934,814. Given that McCain was lackluster by comparison to Romney and given the crawl through broken glass narrative, who stayed home?

Can conservatives/libertarians/Republicans win without them? I think not. Can a political narrative be constructed that includes them and avoids the Akin-type fiasco? I think so, provided the intellectual pomposity of conservative and libertarian “intellectuals” can be put aside.

after reading the comments here, i understand why we lost. what has been called wack-a-doodle ideology just doesn’t fly in the long run. i have been angry with my party (i’m a registered republican) for the attitude of ‘if you don’t toe the party line, we will get rid of you even though you’re a republican’. we lost the very leaders who could have won this election because we would not back them due to their moderate conservative agendas. we instead put up through the primary process, what most pundits and even loyal republicans called the ‘wack-a-doodle’ representatives. when we are elected to fix the economy and get the jobs back on line but after winning (last election cycle) immediately forget our promises and begin demanding and implementing governmental interference with personal freedoms, we must expect even loyal republicans to dump our candidates. remember? less government??? not more!!!

since when do we need to jump into the private bedrooms of voters instead of fixing the economy or building businesses? and, even we have to admit that the statistics from so many sources (of all political stripes and leanings) showing the top 1%-ers holding over 50% of the assets in our country must be considered. i’m sure you realize that the electorate is noticing that!

when we constantly skew facts to fit our agendas and the ‘facts’ are so blatantly untrue, the electorate (me included) resent the implication that we are too stupid to notice the truth. screaming doesn’t make crap turn into diamonds. i’m in the nra. i value my weaponry but despite the yammering about obama taking our weapons, he never did nor did he try to. you think i didn’t notice? how many examples like that do you want? i got a pile of them. you think i didn’t notice that many of our (republican) candidates had no stance at all because they changed so often. quicksand!!! do you think that women didn’t notice that we tried to de-fund birth control? and, we have made the life of the woman less important than a fetus? and, that we tried to stop voters from voting through draconian (& illegal) methods of registration or making actual voting difficult for ‘some’?

c’mon guys, take a break and start looking for reality instead of just listening to fox and info that is skewed to rile us up instead of get us prepared. fox is the biggest panderer in town! they make huge $$$$$$ off of shrieking and yelling to get our testosterone so high that we’re blinded! it is a tragedy that they won’t give us the tools to win until we make them be more than loud windbags! think about it… if the dems had PLANNED to dump us, they couldn’t have done it without fox & company making us look just plain STOOPID.

listen, if we don’t know the real REAL lay of the land, we’re always gonna land up like custer at the little big horn. killed off cuz we didn’t have the facts and we underestimated the intelligence of the other side!!!

A few additional factors that tilted the election to Obama:
Romney’s inability to focus on Obama’s miserable performance on Benghazi. Candy Crowly’s interference certainly made it tougher( I wonder if Obama and Crowly colluded on her interference; He some how knew that she would have the quote ready to read.)
The Media’s one-sidedness and lack of interest in any of the foolish things Obama was doing.

The battle for the direction of this country is being won by the socialist, anti-God, America-bad segment of the Democrat party because they took control of our schools, colleges and universities forty years ago. They also control the media which continues the drumbeat of indoctrination of our youth 24 hours a day. We are trying to fight a battle of ideas and policies using facts. We have no hope of winning when we are trying to convince a brain-washed population with an ever shortening attention span of very limited capacity.
The only hope for a limited Constitutional government to ever exist again in the United States is for the people to take back local control of our schools.
Sadly, I no longer think that is possible. We have let it slide too far for too long.

Why did Obama win, all the above….. If you are looking for a return to the values that built this nation, its not going to be an easy accomplishment. America has been tricked into being left of center and the powers in place will be hard to change in the future. Their indoctrination starts in grade school, is viewed on all channels, and is now going to be part of our economics. The question is, what do you do about it? I don’t think we can ever take back the MSM, get professors and teachers who won’t politic, or undo the social welfare programs. What is left to us? What is left to us is economic warfare. Use you dollars to build the nation you want. Here is how it is done. First don’t donate to any fund that will help with the recovery of the Northeast. Since they wanted Obama so badly, let him be the one who supplies all the capitol to repair the damage. We’ll see how fast he moves to help the poor white people of the Northeast. Avoid doing any business in any of the blue States. Don’t vacation there, don’t buy anything produced there (unless it is entirely avoidable). Buy only Ford or foreign autos. Avoid doing business with companies such as Time Warner, don’t use any cable or other products from them. Check to see where any of the cable networks is headquartered. Divest of any stock in CBS, NBC, or Disney. In short, use the same tactics these left leaners use only against them. Coke not Pepsi. There is a huge list folks, its just waiting to be discovered. Money talks, it talks louder than words. The chant isn’t just made in the USA, but where its made in the USA.

Here is some irony about this election. Obama won’t have been elected if it hadn’t been for the help of big labor. Yet, 2/3s of the jobs created here in this country are held by foreigners. Labor couldn’t even see that their worst enemy was the very man they were supporting. We no longer have to outsource our jobs, the labor we so desperately sought has come here and we are still stuck with 7.9% unemployment.

Tricked? No more so than the Tea Party has been tricked into thinking that because, let’s say healthcare is not mentioned specifically in the Sublime Document, that it must be the product of communists. For example, check out Panel Four at the Jefferson Memorial:

I am certainly not an advocate for for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” – Jefferson to H. Tompkinson (AKA Samuel Kercheval), July 12, 1816[10]

I’m not against new ideas Dwight. Change for the sake of change doesn’t make it good or right. Tricked yes. Vote with your lady parts etc. I’m glad that you brought up health care. My daughter did read the whole thing, yes the whole thing. Did you? Universal health care is being brought to you at the expense of my health care which I worked and paid for my whole adult life. Its being brought to you by the 780 billion taken out of Medicare. What did I get for it? If I get sick and have to go to a hospital, they take me the first time. Should I get sick again within 30 days, they get fined if they take me. (By the way this happened to me when I had a kidney stone removed and later got a case of MERSA afterward. Under this new law I’d be dead.) I’m no longer entitled to physical therapy to sustain me. As far as I know nobody in this country was denied health care. People I know who are on welfare got adequate health services via Medicaid. Our hospitals are not allowed to turn anyone away, all you had to do was look in the emergency rooms. New ideas don’t mean new truths. The mores that anchor our society will still anchor it. Surrendering to our baser wants don’t make them right no matter how enlightened you feel. See, I don’t have to quote anyone, I can think for myself.

Of course I did not read the whole thing, but I do know that it does not affect my health care coverage. I agree that ideas should be accepted or rejected on their merits, and am addressing the folks who say, “where does it say in the Constitution that…?” You say that Americans have been “tricked,” whereas what I see is that have taken a position different from yours. So it goes.

Romney’s failure to achieve the numbers achieved by McCain-Palin suggests another factor that all the enlightened libertarians and conservatives, like commentor 107, might want to consider. Conservative Christians may not have turned out for Morman Romney.

Romney (according to Drudge at the moment) 57,304,430; McCain 57,934,814. Given that McCain was lackluster by comparison to Romney and given the crawl through broken glass narrative, who stayed home?

Can conservatives/libertarians/Republicans win without them? I think not. Can a political narrative be constructed that includes them and avoids the Akin-type fiasco? I think so, provided the intellectual pomposity of conservative and libertarian “intellectuals” can be put aside.

In four years it will be ‘darkest before dawn’. The economy will still be in the dumps and unemployment will remain very high. Democrats will still complain about Bush and the national debt will be insurmountable.

Perhaps then, and only then, will the American public come to its (common( senses.

As I have been saying from the start: When over 70% of any population is made up of “gatherer’s,” or people who ONLY LIVE to be given things from others, “that society is doomed!” Yes, the “gatherer’s” are our women & blacks and the FIRST LAW of Economics 101 states SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, & DESTROY SOCIETY! The irony is that women are on average the “verbally edept sex” and the blacks tend to be the “go-fer’s,” so this society definitely is DOOMED! Again, just saying, what is, is…At least we need no city burning & etc. YET!!!

May I say that you are full of crap? You are. This is exactly what got you this election. Four years ago, on this very site, I counciled the Republican party against its stance on abortion. I don’t think anybody listened. Well, we got exactly what we deserve. The women did vote with their lady parts. Thank G-d they still have the right. Your comment about blacks is pure racist. Frankly, I welcome any blacks who come to see our point of view. I don’t doubt that you would have a hard time working for either a woman or a black.

Andy…you’re a RINO. Aborticide is murder. Nothing can change that. N O T H I N G. Woman voted with their vaginas to have to the right to fornicate and kill babies created as a product of that fornication. And THAT is the real truth. You can’t get around it. Morally bankrupt conservatism is no better than morally bankrupt liberalism. The key phrase is MORALLY BANKRUPT.

You can’t force your morals on others, prohibition is a good example of that. As for me being called a ‘rhino’, you may be right; but, I’ve been called worse normally by liberal Democrats. Maybe its time for a third party, a centrist party that’s not extreme conservative or liberal. Gee, maybe our symbol could be a rhino.

1)Presuming this is His last election, and He doesn’t appoint himself dictator for life, Obama no longer needs the left.
2) He is a narcissistic egomaniac very concerned with his place in history. Will He just get a line or two as the first AA pres, a paragraph for OCare? He wants more…much more…a whole chapter. The way to do that would be to tach right and seriously address long term problems as entitlements…a la Bill Clinton, unless he is really a committed leftist ideologue.

On the other hand….I am also concerned about the Weimar Republic Syndome. When the pendulum swings back to the right as it inevitably will….will it go too far?

Obama won as Lenin: he promised every needy person something from the government, and he lied that his opponent will take away the little they have. Of course, all this have nothing to do with truth. Can one win against such propaganda machine while staying in the framework of civilized society? I do not think somebody invented a solution yet.

Even if there was no direct fraud, violations of the law, this method of dumbing down and deceiving voters violates whole idea of democracy, makes it a joke.

The knives were out before the election results were known here in the San Fransico Bay Area. A young woman from Larouchepac.org had a large display in front of my local post office yesterday morning calling on Americans to Impeach Obama. Posters showed Obama with a Hitler mustache and flyers articulated his crimes against the US constitution. According to the young woman I talked to, the movement is attracting many disillusioned and radicalized young people who feel abandoned in our current political system by the left and the right. The Larouchepac platform is anti-war and critical of the banking system, so Larouche may be drawing cross-over support from Paul fans in the bay area. Anyway, there is small satisfaction in knowing Obama will have opposition from all directions, even from the heart of dark blue SF and that there are young radicals unafraid to call for his impeachment in public.

I am so tired of even conservatives saying things like this: “Richard Murdock’s outrageous views on rape as something God intended”. Murdock, despite the twisting of the liberal media, was talking about LIFE being something God intended.

These contextually-impaired readers need to recognise their idiocy: “I came to realize LIFE is that gift from God. Even when LIFE begins, in that horrible situation of rape, it is something that God intended to happen.”

Only in the liberal mindset, where life in pregnancy is considered a curse, does this twist into something “bad”. Murdock was looking at LIFE as a Godly blessing, something good to come out of a horrible act.

That Conservatives fell for the Liberal spin is discouraging and disheartening.

This is simple: Next time ….. 1). Do not let George Soros count the votes. 2) STOP TALKING ABOUT ABORTION, LEAVE WOMEN ALONE. 3). Choose a vice presidential candidate who is not your clone, choose someone who can appeal to an important demographic that you can steal from your opponent. 4). Have better control of the primary candidates so they do not pre-destroy the ultimate nominee in their quest for power 5). CAMPAIGN IN ALL 50 STATES And finally taking a page from the Warren Buffett playbook, buy up every available media outlet so it can present your message on a daily basis.

He was for more war
more gov’t spending (not in the social sector, but at war profiteering)
liked drone bombing
supported the federal reserve
was for illegal detention, assassination, and spying on citizens of the US
Said he wouldn’t in his 1st 4 years touch anything to do with roe v wade

Wake up, we don’t want more war, we want liberty. We want smaller FEDERAL gov’t. We don’t want bailouts, we don’t want a federal reserve devaluing our currency. We don’t want the gov’t regulating what we put in our bodies. We don’t want the TSA. We don’t want to give money to dictators. We want sound money…

I can not understand the pernicious levels of defeatist commentary I am reading in this thread. If conservatism lost on Tuesday November 6, 2012, then it was because it came to the polls prepared to lose and whine about it.

What happened to the message of manning up and taking fiscal responsibility for our nation? What happened to standing up to fight for what conservatives belive?

This is not the time to cry like little girls who have been told we’re not the most popular person at the prom. Get over it. Make a gameplan to win the 2014 seats to prevent even further damage at the state and congressional levels. Stop being a bunch of quitters who fall apart at the first setback they encounter.

The USA still exists. It is facing serious problems. Behaving like a bunch of Chicken Little’s crying “the sky is falling” is not going to create any solutions. It may be comfortaing to weep at a repudiation by 50% of the electorate, but I prefer to look at it as 48% understanding the importance of conservative values. Certainly it seems like a tipping point, but laying down without pushing back is only going to create a self fullfilling prophesy.

The solution is to stop looking for a political elections and “government” to solve this problem. Live your conservative values in your personal life, and become the example people want to follow instead of trying to foist off the responsibility onto an elected official. Going “Galt” is only surrendering to the “they’re right after all” mentality.

Just because others throw away their morality doesn’t mean it is time to surrender and join them, it means it is time to fight even harder. If holders of conservative values have to become martyrs to political correctness and socialism, then let them dance around with your metaphorical blood on their hands while you stood true to your beliefs. That was the most important lesson Jesus Christ dying on the cross presented, and people still flinch away from suffering now to make a better future for others tomorrow.

It is very hard to tell people they need to feel the pain when you are among the first to avoid it. Step up and take the hit now knowing that only by letting the left leaning forces in this country reap the whirlwind of their victory can they ever learn the mistake they are making.

The media highlighted Republican weaknesses and covered up Democrat weaknesses. They are predominantly left-wing and seize on anything that will advance their big-government agenda. Romney was the far better man, and they allowed him to be smeared and lied about. Tough to win in that situation.

Republicans have finally paid a political price for their cynical, treasonous, scorched-earth strategy to oppose any and all attempts by Obama and the Democrats to get this country back on track. They held the economy of the country hostage so that they could create a failed presidency to run against. They created this unprecedented gridlock and then – and I’m not making this up – claimed that only a Republican – Rawmoney – would be able to work with them to break this gridlock.

Rawmoney wanted us to believe that the unprecedented obstructionism of Obama’s agenda by the Republicans for the express purpose of creating a failed presidency was Obama’s fault and that we needed to not only ignore the treasonous betrayal of America’s interests for the pursuit of political power by the Republicans, but to reward this extortion by voting for him.

And, now House Republicans are signaling that they’ll continue to oppose higher taxes on the richest Americans as part of a budget compromise to avoid the “fiscal cliff”. How much longer now will the Republicans continue to put their selfish desire for power over the good of the country?

According to your little diatribe conservatives are “cynical” “treasonous” and “selfish” for opposing Obama’s leftist plans to fundamentally restructure the US to suit his liking?
You left out “racist”.

the clever Romney strategy, treading water, holding off on Benghazi, worked for a while, but wore off real quick when Barry got serious and began spitting insults and lies about Romney, who, ever the gentleman, chose to ignore them.

Gentleman is good, but certain things you can’t let go by. You have to show you can handle yourself. Romney didn’t.

“welcome to the new government…Ineptocracy- a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of prodcuing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a dimishing number of producers.”
I am very sad for our Country, or what will be left of it.

Romney didn’t get elected because we’ve reached the tipping point of people wanting money and services from the government for government to make all their decisions for them. Freedom isn’t important to half the country. They want stuff. And if you have it, they want yours. There’s only one Party now. The GiveAway Party. GOP is now dead (and I’m a Republican). Why? Because the only way for the GOP to compete…EVER…is to give away stuff. It’s is now the American (or illegal American) way.

We were give a choice between robbers and morality enforcement. The country chose the robbers. This has been going on forever. Remember Obama drubbing Keyes in Illinois? And yet the Rs keep repeating the mistake. Why?

Why not get out in front of a “moral” issue and support med pot whose popularity runs at 70% to 80%? Just to counter the general impression?